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 spped 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.
- ISBN10 0425050777
- ISBN13 9780425050774
- Publish Date 15 February 1981 (first published 15 April 1971)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berkley Publishing Group
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English