Editing Heechee Saga (section)

==Publication history==
The original Heechee novella, "[[The Merchants of Venus]]" (sometimes called "The Merchants of Venus Underground"), was published in the July–August 1972 issue of ''[[Worlds of If]]''<ref name=isfdb-if/> – or ''If'', a magazine Pohl had edited from 1961 to 1969 – and almost simultaneously in ''The Gold at the Starbow's End'' (Ballantine Books, 1972), a collection of short fiction by Pohl. The 1972 magazine story was illustrated by [[Jack Gaughan]].<ref name=isfdb-if/>

Five novels published from 1977 to 2004 also feature the Heechee:

* ''[[Gateway (novel)|Gateway]]''. This was serialized in ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction|Galaxy]]'' beginning November 1976, with illustrations by [[Vincent DiFate]], and was published as a book by [[St. Martin's Press]] in April 1977.<ref name=isfdb-gateway/> Translations into French, German, Dutch, and Italian were all published during 1978 and 1979.<ref name=isfdb-gateway/>{{efn|ISFDB catalogs editions published in six foreign languages: French and German, 1978; Dutch and Italian, 1979; Portuguese, 1986; Hungarian, 1991.}}
* ''[[Beyond the Blue Event Horizon]]'' (Del Rey, 1980)
* ''[[Heechee Rendezvous]]'' (Del Rey, 1984). It was serialized in ''[[Amazing Stories|Amazing Science Fictio]]n'' starting in January 1984, with illustrations by Jack Gaughan.
* ''[[The Annals of the Heechee]]'' (Del Rey, 1987)
* ''[[The Boy Who Would Live Forever |The Boy Who Would Live Forever: A Novel of Gateway]]'' ([[Tor Books]], 2004), which incorporated three previously published stories:<ref>{{isfdb contents|63897|The Boy Who Would Live Forever ''(book)|''first edition}}. Retrieved 2014-12-14.</ref>
:* "The Boy Who Would Live Forever" (split into "From Istanbul to the Stars" and "In the Steps of Heroes"), ''[[Far Horizons]]'', ed. [[Robert Silverberg]] ([[Avon Books]], May 1999), pp.&nbsp;295–342
:* "Hatching the Phoenix", illustrated by [[Vincent DiFate]], ''[[Amazing Stories]]'', Fall 1999, pp.&nbsp;32–43, and Winter 2000, pp.&nbsp;84–96
:* "A Home for the Old Ones", ''Science Fiction: DAW 30th Anniversary'' ([[DAW Books]], May 2002), pp.&nbsp;159–74

In 1990, nine new short stories were published in the first three 1990 issues of ''[[Aboriginal Science Fiction]]''. These, and "The Merchants of Venus", made up the collection, ''[[The Gateway Trip]]: Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee'' ([[Del Rey Books]]); both the serial and the book, also released in 1990, were illustrated by [[Frank Kelly Freas]].<ref name=isfdb/>

A German-language edition of the first three novels was published 20 years later as "The Gateway Trilogy": ''Die Gateway-Trilogie'' (Munich: Heyne Verlag, 2004).<ref name=isfdb/>