Broadhead thought his motives were simple enough: a gamble on a breakthrough that could end famine forever and would make him the wealthiest man in history. But his understanding tough-minded wife knew something else drove her husband: a vision of his lost love, poised forever at the “event horizon” of a black hole… where Robin had abandoned her.
Every scrap of Heechee lore that could be brought back and interpreted increased the chance that he would someday, somehow, be able to reach and perhaps even rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin.
And, it appeared, they had found the Heechee!
Broadhead thought his motives were simple enough: a gamble on a breakthrough that could end famine forever and would make him the wealthiest man in history. But his understanding tough-minded wife knew something else drove her husband: a vision of his lost love, poised forever at the “event horizon” of a black hole… where Robin had abandoned her.
Every scrap of Heechee lore that could be brought back and interpreted increased the chance that he would someday, somehow, be able to reach and perhaps even rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin.
And, it appeared, they had found the Heechee!
