Tau Zero
by:
Poul Anderson (author)
Gollancz / Orion, 2006. This is a beautiful trade paperback edition. First published in book form in 1970, regarded as a quintessential example of "hard sci-fi." Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
Gollancz / Orion, 2006. This is a beautiful trade paperback edition. First published in book form in 1970, regarded as a quintessential example of "hard sci-fi." Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575077324 (0575077328)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Pages no: 190
Edition language: English
“Consider: a single light-year is an inconceivable abyss. Denumerable but inconceivable. At an ordinary speed – say, a reasonable pace for a car in megalopolitan traffic, two kilometers per minute – you would consume almost nine million years in crossing it. And in Sol’s neighborhood, the stars aver...
Poul Anderson is an underrated and highly flexible science fiction and fantasy writer. This is now my third book by him. All of them are good and innovative. This book is with The Forever War the best treatment of relativity that I have seen in Science Fiction.It concerns a colony ship accelerati...
can't say I enjoyed it fully and duly lol. but Hard SF part was lovely. (nice rhyme)))
This might have made a good novella. I just read a blurb that said Anderson will be best remembered for this book. I hope not. Some of his work is very good, some is great. This isn't.I guess it qualifies as "hard science", because no laws of physics are violated (though I think nobody actually beli...
I'm reading this book as moderator of a discussion on Sci Fi Aficionadoes this month. No one has chimed in yet on the discussion. It's a little lonely. The reason I'm bringing that up is because Tau Zero was the winner of our "Time Travel" theme, which has me a little bit...befuddled. I mean, yes, t...
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