{"id":25951,"date":"2022-03-23T06:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=25951"},"modified":"2022-04-28T15:21:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T22:21:06","slug":"heechee-rendezvous-by-frederik-pohl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/03\/23\/heechee-rendezvous-by-frederik-pohl\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f4da; Heechee Rendezvous by Frederik Pohl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1506,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/app.thestorygraph.com\\\/books\\\/af7a215e-b372-45e4-9800-0c7d36214284&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>18\/2022 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/app.thestorygraph.com\/books\/af7a215e-b372-45e4-9800-0c7d36214284\" title=\"StoryGraph: Heechee Rendezvous\">&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A definite improvement over the second book in the series. The hard-SF aspects are explored well, with a focus on the mysteries of the Heechee, AIs, dark matter, and consciousness, all without the troublesome themes of the prior book.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25950\" style=\"width: 2550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25950\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50851852-C5BA-4509-B2DE-931D661B329B-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"Michael holding Heechee Rendezvous\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50851852-C5BA-4509-B2DE-931D661B329B-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50851852-C5BA-4509-B2DE-931D661B329B-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50851852-C5BA-4509-B2DE-931D661B329B-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50851852-C5BA-4509-B2DE-931D661B329B-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50851852-C5BA-4509-B2DE-931D661B329B-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/50851852-C5BA-4509-B2DE-931D661B329B-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael holding Heechee Rendezvous<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A definite improvement over the second book in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2049],"tags":[4118],"class_list":["post-25951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photos","tag-frederik-pohl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}