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Tau Zero

byPoul Anderson

Who is this book for? Readers interested in deep space exploration and character-driven narratives.

Topics SurvivalTechnology and HumanityIsolation
MoodSuspenseful, Melancholic
Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so (as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will slow and so the journey of several decades will be of much shorter duration for the crew.But the ship's deceleration system is irreparably damaged when it hits a cloud of interstellar dust and acceleration continues toward light speed, tau zero. Soon the ship is speeding through galaxies and eons are passing on board the ship in the blink of an eye ...

Language

en

Published on

02/09/2006

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780575077324

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