#heechee — Public Fediverse posts
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@markmccaughrean well, I suppose (geographical-) we could build the service modules and bits of #Gateway and look round for a different boost to #orbit and Beyond
If the missions make sense.#SciFi #FredPohl wrote a series of #Heechee SF novels based on Gateway asteroid, a relic. Interesting. Dystopian Earth.
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As these things go in resale finding. Found books 1 and 3 of the Heechee saga. Probably take me 3 months to find book 2.
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#HeeChee
#HeeCheeSaga
#FrederickPohl -
It is said that engineers grow up to invent what science fiction they read as teenagers, i.e., Star Trek Spock's tricorder was the inspiration for the mobile phone.
The #ChatGPT is the closest thing I've ever seen to the regurgitated, recombined knowledge of the deceased, as described by Frederick Pohl in his #Heechee saga books, such as in "Heechee Rendezvous".