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#109 No brakes: Tau Zero (1970) by Poul Anderson
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Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, published in 1970, is a landmark of hard SF which pushes out far further, beyond the Milky Way and into the frightening emptiness of intergalactic space. It also deals memorably with time dilation, and a vast spain of eons.
Significantly, Anderson does all of this in a scientifically convincing way, with a plot strongly grounded in his understanding of phyics at the time. This episode takes a close look at the novel, and the reasons why it remains a classic of its type over 50 years later.
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Manage episode 411828419 series 2812810
Poul Anderson's Tau Zero, published in 1970, is a landmark of hard SF which pushes out far further, beyond the Milky Way and into the frightening emptiness of intergalactic space. It also deals memorably with time dilation, and a vast spain of eons.
Significantly, Anderson does all of this in a scientifically convincing way, with a plot strongly grounded in his understanding of phyics at the time. This episode takes a close look at the novel, and the reasons why it remains a classic of its type over 50 years later.
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For more classic SF reviews, visit andyjohnson.xyz
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1 #136 Hell freezes over: Ice (1967) by Anna Kavan 7:23
1 #135 Take these broken wings: Windhaven (1981) by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle 6:11
1 #134 Out of body experience: The Palace of Eternity (1969) by Bob Shaw 5:55
1 #133 A century of screams: Breakfast in the Ruins (1972) by Michael Moorcock 7:38
1 #132 Retirement plans: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick 9:59
1 #131 El Dorado of the mind: The Embedding (1973) by Ian Watson 8:59
1 #130 Thousand island blessing: The Howling Stones (1997) by Alan Dean Foster 7:12
1 #129 Blind man's bluff: Night Walk (1967) by Bob Shaw 7:14
1 #128 Space and the mind: The Black Corridor (1969) by Michael Moorcock and Hilary Bailey 6:52
1 #127 Science fiction in disguise: Inversions (1998) by Iain M. Banks 8:13
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