Tau Zero – Poul Anderson Free Audiobook

Written by Poul Anderson
Read by Neil Helligers
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Starbound…

The ship quivered. Weight grabbed at Reymount. He barely avoided falling to the deck. A metal noise toned through the hull, like a basso profundo gong. It was soon over. Free flight resumed. The Leonora Christina had gone through another galaxy….

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. Soon the ship is speeding through galaxies and eons are passing on board the ship in the blink of an eye.