Tau Zero
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3.7 • 27 Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
A story that never grows old
I first read this book when I 12 years old. Having just read it again at 60 it is every bit as enjoyable and thought provoking as the first time.
Sublime!
A masterful piece of hard sci-fi writing where the science is good and believable.