This science fiction novel explains the epic voyage from the spacecraft Leonora Christine, which will have a fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty light years distant.

From practically the very first page, Tau Zero pieces scientific realities in dramatic tension with the real emotional and psychological says from the travelers, exploring the result of time contraction due to traveling at near-light speed on the human being psyche. This stress is a powerful that Anderson explores with great about Tau Zero success during the period of the book as fifty crewmembers settle in for the lengthy journey jointly. While they are a highly trained team of scientists and researchers and for that reason professionals, they are also a community of individuals, all of them looking to create for him or herself a life in a complete new space-or, literally, in space.

It isn’t very long, however, before the voyage requires a change for the worse. The ship passes through a small, uncharted nebula that means it is difficult to decelerate the ship. Their only hope is to accomplish the contrary and increase. But acceleration towards and within the speed of light means that time beyond your spaceship passes even more quickly, sending the staff deeper into space and additional into an unknown future.

“Tau Zero continues to be hailed as the quintessential hard SF book, and it’s really a well-deserved accolade…a fantastic story, grounded in appropriate science, and brimming with mind-boggling ideas, hard science, and a scale rarely matched.”-Worlds without End