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Subject: Here's The Plot, What's The Title # 23
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 19:27:00 EDT
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This sounds similar to the opening of "Beyond the Blue Event Horizon"
by Fredrik Pohl.  However there are some MAJOR discrepancies which may
be either due to your aunt's memory, the transfer of information to
you, or the fact that it is the wrong story.  BtBEH is actually about
events considerably after the loss of the girl and describe the hero
involved in other episodes, but being haunted by the memory of the
girl friend.  The lost half of ship wasn't lost to a star system of
any kind but to a black hole, thus the reference to the "Event
Horizon".  This is one of the Heechee series being discussed elsewhere
on the mailing list for different reasons.  The "asteroid machine" is
an artifact of the Heechee, a long gone super-civilization.  The
humans do not know how to control it, but it often has VERY useful
artifacts at the far end of the transport beam and sometimes it brings
back the bold adventurers.  If you have any questions or desire
further info, feel free to contact me (if you can't get me here, I'm
also MAP@MIT-MC).

Mike

P.S. For your further information here is the entries from my personal
bibliography for the two books in this series I own:

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Book (SFBC)
Title:		Gateway
Author:		Fredrik Pohl
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press, Inc.
		175 Fifth Avenue
		New York, New York 10010
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Book (SFBC)
Title:		Beyond the Blue Event Horizon
Author:		Fredrik Pohl
Publisher:	Ballantine Books
		New York, New York
Synopsis:	Sequel to Gateway
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