Tau Zero (s.f. Masterworks)

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 . . .

About the Author

Pseudonym A. A. Craig, Michael Karageorge,Winston P. Sanders, P. A. Kingsley.Poul William Anderson was an American science fiction author who began his career during one of the Golden Ages of the genre and continued to write and remain popular into the 21st century. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy, historical novels, and a prodigious number of short stories. He received numerous awards for his writing, including seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards.Anderson received a degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1948. He married Karen Kruse in 1953. They had one daughter, Astrid, who is married to science fiction author Greg Bear. Anderson was the sixth President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, taking office in 1972. He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords! anthologies. He was a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. Robert A. Heinlein dedicated his 1985 novelThe Cat Who Walks Through Wallsto Anderson and eight of the other members of the Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy.[2][3]Poul Anderson died of cancer on July 31, 2001, after a month in the hospital. Several of his novels were published posthumously.Series:*Time Patrol*Psychotechnic League*Trygve Yamamura*Harvest of Stars*King of Ys*Last Viking*Hoka*Future history of the Polesotechnic League*Flandry