Time to get Pohl'd again. The Merchants of Venus it is.

#scifi @scifi #heechee

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".

#scifi

Weird... So I'm really flying through the #Heechee series, kind of glad I've only discovered them now since had I found them when I was within the age range that they're aimed at I'd have thrown them away in disgust.

To be fair Gateway isn't bad, but so far the rest have been a little too juvenile, so I would probably have not bothered reading much further than the second one.

As it is, with nothing better to do, other than #TheMongoliad to plough through, I'm motoring through them.