Tau Zero
by Poul Anderson
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appears in Space Opera, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction.
This Hugo Award finalist, "justifiably regarded as a classic" (SFReviews.net), is the tale of an epic space voyage where time dilation goes horribly wrong. Aboard the spacecraft Leonora Christine, fifty crewmembers, half men and half women, have embarked on a journey of discovery like no other to a planet thirty lightyears away. Since their ship i...
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appears in Space Opera, Science Fiction, and Science Fiction.
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