A mission of discovery. A catastrophic miscalculation. A journey with no way back.
Fifty crew members aboard the Leonora Christine set out for a distant planet, fully prepared for the effects of time dilation—aging just five years while decades pass on Earth. But when their ship is damaged in an uncharted nebula, their controlled acceleration spirals out of control. Unable to decelerate, they hurtle ever closer to the speed of light.
As time passes faster and faster outside the ship, their journey stretches beyond anything they imagined. With their destination lost and no way to stop, they must confront an unthinkable fate.
A Hugo Award finalist and a landmark in hard science fiction, Tau Zero is a breathtaking exploration of relativity, survival, and the limits of human endurance in the vast emptiness of space.
