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    <body><![CDATA[Whilst perusing recommended sci-fi novels Tau Zero has always been on the periphery of my awareness. I was probably in part drawn to finally taking it out of my local library due to it being a fresh crisp print (no ominous marks to avoid touching when turning pages).<br/><br/>Simply put this is a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70275169">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://nhw.livejournal.com/802524.html">http://nhw.livejournal.com/802524.html</a>[return][return]The fifty-strong crew of a colonisation starship hit a technical problem - they can't shut the drive off, so the ship will keep accelerating towards lightspeed, where the relativistic factor Ä approaches zero (hence the title). Although this is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8026491">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book represents everything great about hard science fiction. The descriptions of a spacecraft approaching the speed of light are compelling, and the author weaves physics and speculation together with beautiful and clear writing. The characters presented are appropriately pulpy for a science fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63720073">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Until recent discoveries in Cosmology showed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, not slowing as a &quot;bang-expand-contract-bang&quot; theory would require, this novel was cutting-edge hard science fiction.<br/><br/>i first read it many years ago, and recently picked up a used cop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80192441">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps one has to be a fan of Poul Anderson in order to really enjoy this novel. I couldn't really, however...<br/><br/>The storyline is â€“ contrary to what I expected â€“ not focusing on the physical circumstances of such a form of travelling near light-speed and the resulting phaenomena, but rat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9877029">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[there are about 2 novel ideas in this hard sf book.  But they are flipping good ones.  bravo!  If the execution was better, this would be timeless.  As it is, this is why I read SF.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice and hard science fiction concerning relativistic speeds and how a crew of 50 scientist explorers adapt to the situation when their decelerator is damaged.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating meditation on the implications of interstella travel both on Einsteinian physics and the psychological reactions of the crew.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book the first time around and still loved it the second time around. A ship goes to the end of time, and beyond.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a pretty cool scifi book abt relativity.  i picked it up more or less by accident years ago.  fun.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A little too heavy on the physics jargon for my taste, but a good read nonetheless.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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  <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Top notch science fiction! It owes everything to Einstein. Apparently that relativity theory really works.]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49055786]]></url>
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  <id>46364475</id>
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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    <![CDATA[Starbound...The ship quivered. Weight grabbed at Reymount. He barely avoided falling to the deck. A metal noise toned through the hull, like a basso profundo gong. It was soon over. Free flight resumed. The Leonora Christina had gone through another galaxy....<br/><br/>The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thrity light-years distant. But, because the ship will accelerate to close to the speed of light, for those on board subjective time will slow and the journey will be of only a few years' duration. Then a buffeting by an interstellar dustcloud changes everything. The ship's deceleration system is damaged irreperably and soon she is gaining velocity. When she attains light-speed, tau zero itself, the disparity between ship-time and external time becomes almost impossibly great. Eons and galaxies hurtle by, and the crew of the Leonora Christine speeds into the unknown.<br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good book. A tale of the Flying Dutchman and of the end of the universe. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1979</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting novel about dilation of time and last remnants of humanity.]]></body>
    
  <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80781537]]></url>
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  <id>46909519</id>
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    <name><![CDATA[Minna]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 19 17:46:45 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book on EBay after much searching. A streamlined and great story.]]></body>
    
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  <id>57810300</id>
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    <name><![CDATA[Frederick]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Tau Zero]]>
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  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173036940m/240617.jpg</image_url>
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  <average_rating>3.70</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>191</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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  <date_added>Fri May 29 19:29:09 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quintessential String Theory Sci-Fi.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau zero itself. ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poul Anderson doesn't understand Special Relativity very well (an interstellar ramscoop spaceship can't carry on accelerating indefinitely, for all sorts of reasons). His understanding of General Relativity is even worse. Even if the Universe is cyclical, whatever would it mean to be <em>outside</em> the mon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40533313">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite science fiction novels.  One of the few attempts to realistically portray the time distortion effects caused by travel at near light speed. ]]></body>
    
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