Fifty men and women set out from earth aboard an inter-stellar craft bound for a planet thirty light-years away.

This is a book in a new series of classic SF stories by various authors brought out in 2009 by Gollancz. This is a B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of THIS edition. Builds to an overpowering climax' - Barry Malzberg / 'Imaginative and at times brilliant' - The Sunday Times / 'The ultimate hard science fiction novel' - James Blish:- (original cost £9.99). A sense of timelessness, human eternity, and the order of the cosmos. Fuelled by daring scientific speculation and tense human drama, it underlines Poul Anderson's place as one of the foremost SF writers:- Review(s): 'Magnificent. Enormously exhilarating, gripping and enjoyable, Tau Zero is the ultimate sense-of-wonder story. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreparably and soon, remorselessly, she is gaining velocity. But a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything.

For those on board, because the ship will accelerate to close the speed of light, subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration. A part of the Gollancz SF Collectors' Edition series of books:- Synopsis: The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light-years distant. A shorter version of this novel appeared in 'Galaxy Science Fiction', June & August 1967 under the title 'To Outlive Eternity'. © 1970: A stand-alone novel by Poul Anderson.

Tau zero by poul anderson