Tau Zero - Brossura

Anderson, Poul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0575077328 ISBN 13: 9780575077324

Casa editrice: Gateway, 2006

Riassunto

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 ...

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Descrizione del libro:

'The ultimate hard science fiction novel' James Blish

L'autore:

Poul Anderson (1926-2001) was born in Pennsylvania of Scandinavian stock. He started publishing science fiction in 1947 and became one the great figures in the genre, serving as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America, winning many Hugo and Nebula awards, and also winning the Gandalf (Grand Master) Award.

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• Editore: Gateway
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0575077328
• ISBN 13: 9780575077324
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192