Tau Zero

This illustration by Geoff Taylor, was originally used on Tau Zero, written by Poul Anderson,

Original Art

Tau Zero


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Tau Zero - art by Geoff Taylor


Description

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Synopsis for Original Title

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 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.


Details

Availability

Year1
1980

Medium2
Unknown

Original
Lost

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