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A review by jaybatson
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon by Frederik Pohl
3.0
The interesting part of this book (to me) was the structural ideas about how AI software worked that Pohl introduced at the beginning of chapter 12. Remember: This book was first published in 1980, and the technical ideas are only now possible - and credibly could be considered underlying how AI could work now in the cloud, or in IBM Watson, or ....
Much of the Heechee story arc now shows its age, but stands up quite well to time. It is not at all a waste of a SciFi reader's time to read both this and the first book (Gateway). Given the dated-ness of the ideas, it's debatable whether I'll keep going in the series. Maybe one more....
Much of the Heechee story arc now shows its age, but stands up quite well to time. It is not at all a waste of a SciFi reader's time to read both this and the first book (Gateway). Given the dated-ness of the ideas, it's debatable whether I'll keep going in the series. Maybe one more....