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Tau Zero

Poul Anderson

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#4706 of 8,085 books · #976 in Science Fiction

Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Novel (1971).

The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration. Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreperably and soon she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown.

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Publisher
Doubleday
ISBN-13
9780575088047
Topics
Space travelTime dilationSurvival

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