Tau Zero by Poul Anderson

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson

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For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself.

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Tau Zero by Poul Anderson

The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thrity light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the spped 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.
Poul Anderson was born in 1926 in Pennsylvania and educated at the University of Minnesota where he gained a degree in physics in 1948. Among his many fine novels are Brain Wave, The Avatar, War of the Wing-Men and The Boat of a Million Years.
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ISBN 13 9780575070998
ISBN 10 0575070994
Title Tau Zero
Author Poul Anderson
Series Gollancz Sf Collector's Edition
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 2000-05-18
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.