Once you have travelled this far out in time and space, is there ever a way back." Packed weight 270gms. On board, not just decades but eons are passing in the blink of an eye. Soon the ship is speeding through galaxies. But the ship's deceleration system is irreparably damaged when it hits a cloud of inter-stellar dust and its acceleration continues inexorably towards light speed - tau zero. A journey lasting thirty years will pass, for the crew, in less than a decade. The ship will travel at almost the speed of light and as a result subjective time on board will slow down. Of course, space travel and time travel are bountifully explored in sci-fi, but Anderson invented a completely new form of travel 'tau travel'. Fifty men and women set out from earth aboard an inter-stellar craft bound for a planet thirty light-years away. In this book, he tells the story of a spaceship traveling so close to light speed that it can traverse a galaxy in only a second shipboard perceived time. This is a book in a new series of classic SF stories by various authors brought out in 2009 by Gollancz. This is a B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing of THIS edition.
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