Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga)

In Book Two of the Heechee Saga Robinette Broadhead is on his way to making a fortune by bankrolling an expedition to the Food Factory--a Heechee spaceship that can graze the cometary cloud and transfor the basic elements of the universe into untold quantities of food. But even as he gambles on the breakthrough technology he is wracked with the guilt of losing his wife poised forever at the "event horizon" of a black hole where Robin had abaondoned her. As more and more information comes back from the expedition Robin grows ever hopeful that he can rescue his beloved Gelle-Klara Moynlin. After three and a years the factory is discovered to work and a human is found aboard. Robins suffering may be just about over.... THE HEECHEE SAGA Book One: Gateway Book Two: Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Book Three: Heechee Rendezvous Book Four: The Annals of the Heechee