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'The ultimate hard science fiction novel' James Blish

The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew to a planet some thirty 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 irreparably 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.

About the Author: Poul Anderson was born in 1926 in Pennsylvania and educated at the University of Minnesota where he gained a degree in physics in 1948. Among his many fine novels are Brain Wave, The Avatar, War of the Wing-Men and The Boat of a Million Years.

Gollancz has been a leading science-fiction publisher for decades. By delving into its enviable backlist and adding some really spectacular, limited-edition covers Gollancz's 'Future Classics' series aims to attract new readers to a carefully selected list of critically lauded and/or award winning books originally published between 1985 and the early 2000s. [The Australian Bookseller + Publisher] Gollancz is fulfilling a vital function in the genre, keeping the classics alive and in print and accessible to a new reading public. [Aurealis] The series is marked by distinctive, enigmatic front covers. [Andromeda]

ISBN: 9780575082588
ISBN-10: 0575082585
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 192
Published: June 2009
Dimensions (cm): 19.9 x 12.8  x 1.4
Weight (kg): 0.188