This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON

Copyright © 1980 by Frederik Pohl

Originally published by Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books

All rights reserved.

An Orb Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

175 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10010

www.tor-forge.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pohl, Frederik.

Beyond the blue event horizon / Frederik Pohl.—1st Orb ed.

p. cm.

Sequel to: Gateway.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2177-0

ISBN-10: 0-7653-2177-7

1. Outer space—Exploration—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3566.O36B48 2009

813'.54—dc22

2008053819

First Orb Edition: April 2009

eISBN 9781466806351

First eBook edition: October 2013