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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 08:27:52 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 08:27:52 1984
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The story read by Perry's aunt, with people making risky expeditions from
an alien base, and the hero's girlfriend getting stuck in a singularity,
is surely

	Gateway : Fred Pohl

and the hero is Robinette Broadbent.  There is also a sequel, "Beyond the
Blue Event Horizon", which I think is better than the first book, and soon
there will be a third novel.  The aliens, by the way, are "Heechee", and
their strange artifacts first appear in "The Merchants of Venus", but I
don't think Pohl had worked out many details at that time.
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