Talk:Heechee Saga

message: This is book series article at least as well as a fictional beings article. Thus previous editors put it in  as well as . Thus I developed it primarily by adding bibliographic data on the series.
: P.S. I will add bibliographic data to the three book articles for the trilogy (as German-lang publisher calls it), as well as awards data, and probably reduce some of the bibliog data here.
It is not a book article so the template  is not appropriate. Consider .
--02:17; P.S. P64 (talk) 02:22, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Series 

message: The Heechee appear to resemble the Haashchʼéé in the Navajo creation story, Diné Bahaneʼ. These gods or deities include Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí, deity of the hunt; Haashchʼééłtiʼí, the Talking God, god of the dawn and the east; and Hashchʼéoghan, the House-God, god of evening and the west. As the Heechee and the Haashchʼéé are both supposed to be races of a long past era, there certainly seems to be a connection.
Yes, there should be a page for this race, just like there should be a page for Vulcans and Klingons. Science Fiction is present-day mythology, and it is important for us to see things like what I pointed out in the paragraph above. Many may not appreciate these connections, but that does not mean that those of us who do appreciate them should not have a page to be able to learn and discuss. I find the page useful, and that means there are silent others who also find it useful. If it is useful to even just a handful of us, why not allow the page to remain?
There really should be a page for the entire Gateway series. Right now the only list appears on the Heechee page, and they are two distinct concepts, a race and a series of books. A year or two ago I tried to create a page for it but it was deleted. Would someone who can start a page without it getting taken down please do so, and I would be happy to provide additional information for the page.
Mseanbrown (talk) 19:10, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heechee may be the Navajo Haashchʼéé 

message: As I said in the AfD, WP:TNT is needed here. I guess I was wrong - slightly. More than half of the old content (lengthy, unreferenced plot summary) is gone (compare). The publication history has been retained (I believe I suggested it is a fork of such content existing elsewhere). Now, what is badly needed is a section on reception/significance of this series. The article is now describing the series (previously it was misfocused on the fictional race), but we still need to explain to the reader why the series is notable. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 17:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the rewrite 

message: I was searching for the SF work that included alien "fans", originally seen as decorative, that come to be understood as data storage which can be read with an appropriately reverse engineered technology; it's "Heechee prayer fans".  Surprising that this important concept isn't referenced here; is it worth adding? 
See for example https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-sci-fi-book-or-series/958935 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/03/14/gateway-to-a-wonder/14c4da26-b6ec-496c-b0b9-ccc08ba01226/ Aliza250 (talk) 01:41, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heechee Prayer Fans