Besides winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards, he has received the Gandalf, Seiun, and Strannik, or “Wanderer,” Awards.
He was the guest of honor at the 1959 World Science Fiction Convention and at many similar events, including the 1998 Contact Japan 3 and the 1999 Strannik Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Admired for his “hard” science fiction, mysteries, historical novels, and “fantasy with rivets,” he also excelled in humor. After discovering science fiction fandom and earning a physics degree at the University of Minnesota, he found writing science fiction more satisfactory. Poul Anderson (1926–2001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. With its combination of mind-blowing hard science and compelling human drama, Tau Zero is “the ultimate hard science novel” (Mike Resnick). But how will they keep hope alive and maintain order as they hurtle deeper into space with time passing more and more rapidly, and their ultimate fate unknown?
To survive, the crewmembers have no choice but to bypass their destination and continue to accelerate toward the speed of light. the Leonora Christine passes through an uncharted nebula, which damages the engine, making it impossible to decelerate the ship on the second half of their trip. Experienced scientists and researchers, they have come to terms with the time conditions of their space travel. They will age five years on board the ship before reaching their destination, but thirty-three years will pass on Earth. Since their ship is not capable of traveling faster than light, the crew will be subject to the effects of time dilation and relativity. This Hugo Award finalist, “justifiably regarded as a classic” (), is the tale of an epic space voyage where time dilation goes horribly wrong.Īboard the spacecraft Leonora Christine, fifty crewmembers, half men and half women, have embarked on a journey of discovery like no other to a planet thirty light-years away.
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