num_pages: 160
description: Fifty men and women set out in the twenty-third century from Earth aboard an interstellar craft to travel to a planet some thirty light-years away. The ship will approach the speed of light and so (as Einstein predicted) subjective time on board will slow and so the journey of several decades will be of much shorter duration for the crew. But the ship's deceleration system is irreparably damaged when it hits a cloud of interstellar dust and acceleration continues toward light speed, tau zero. Soon the ship is speeding through galaxies and eons are passing on board the ship in the blink of an eye ...
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: GuildAmerica Books / SFBC