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Title: Tau Zero (SF Collector's Edition) by Poul Anderson ISBN: 0-575-07099-4 Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Pub. Date: 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Offers a seldom seen solution to a common scifi problem.
Comment: The book is basically a long short story. The chosen crew to found a colony at a distant star finds their ship out of control and unable to stop. They must overcome the tendency to give up hope and find a new answer to an unsolvable problem. They travel thru space and time to the end of time and space. What will happen at the end of the universe? Anderson has become one of my top authors.
Rating: 4
Summary: Full-speed SF
Comment: A space-ship designed to travel at speed, carrying explorers intending to colonise a distant star, gets into a bit of trouble and has its deceleration mechanism knocked out. Result - ship goes faster and faster and cannot stop. But this is no precursor of Speed for the space adventure generation. Despite the somewhat two-dimensional aspect of most of the characters, Anderson's novel develops into a meditation on life, the universe and everything. As the ship reaches almost unimaginable speeds, the universe outside the ship begins to observably age, leading to an inevitable conclusion with perhaps unexpected consequences. A well-handled science fiction meditation on the meaning of existence.
Rating: 3
Summary: Hard SF
Comment: If you like your SF hard and technical, Tau Zero is worth taking a look at. The main premise of the plot is based around relativity. The faster the ship goes, the 'slower' time becomes for the ship and its crew. With the result that the crew can travel immense distances in, what is for them, a few years time; and literally watch the universe age.
This is an intriguing premise, but the book, short as is, reads slow. Characterization is not well done. The crew seems to come apart psychologically too fast. After all they knew when they started they wouldn't see Earth again, and would be journeying for at least five years. I just don't believe a handpicked crew, would panic and despair in a few years, even if the universe around them had aged hundreds of millions of years.
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Title: Brainwave : The Greatest Masterpiece by the Science Fiction Grandmaster by Poul Anderson ISBN: 0743474864 Publisher: I Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Boat of A Million Years by Poul Anderson ISBN: 0812531353 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Mission of Gravity (SF Collector's Edition) by Hal Clement ISBN: 0575070943 Publisher: Orion Publishing Group Pub. Date: 20 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title:A Fire Upon The Deep Special Edition eBook by Vernor Vinge ASIN: B0000691P1 Publisher: St. Martin's Press List Price(USD): $12.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $10.36 |
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Title:Sandkings by George R. R. Martin ASIN: B00005TZWI Publisher: Fictionwise.com List Price(USD): $1.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $1.99 |
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