num_pages: 188
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.
language: English
title: Tau Zero
titlecomplete: Tau Zero
genres: Space, Science Fiction Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Time Travel, Science Fiction, Space Opera
ratings_count: 14218
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Long Story
publisher: Berkley