Heechee Rendezvous
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Frederik Pohl’s “Heechee Rendezvous” is an entertaining third Heechee book that returns to Robinette Broadhead some three decades after “Gateway”. Some readers enjoy it as a lively continuation of his story; others miss the sense of wonder of the first two books and find the side plots sprawling and the monologues tiresome. It is meant for readers who have already read “Gateway” and its sequel.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Heechee Rendezvous is a science fiction novel by the American writer Frederik Pohl, published in 1984 by the Del Rey imprint of Ballantine Books. It is a sequel to Gateway (1977) and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (1981) and is set about three decades after Gateway. It has been cataloged as the third book in a six-book series called Heechee or The Heechee Saga but Kirkus reviewed it as completing a trilogy and a German-language edition of the three books was published as the Gateway trilogy after all six were out.
Reading order · Heechee Saga
Full order & progress →- GatewayStart here
7.97.9 / 10 - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
7.67.6 / 10 - Heechee RendezvousThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - The Annals of the Heechee
–Not ranked yet - The Gateway Trip
–Not ranked yet - The Boy Who Would Live ForeverThe Boy Who Would Live Forever–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 72 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.3 | 7 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 65 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is Heechee Rendezvous?
It has 320 pages — shorter than 76% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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