Tau Zero
- ISBN-10
- 0575070994
- ISBN-13
- 9780575070998
- Series
- Tau Zero
- Category
- Space ships
- Pages
- 189
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Author
- Poul Anderson
Description
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.
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