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A review by hakimbriki
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson
2.0
Good premise, cool hard sci-fi postulate, terrible everything else.
I really feel like Tau Zero would have worked much better as a short story. It's a short novel (about 200 pages), and it is fast-paced (no pun intended)... but it still felt drawn out and partly soporific. The dialogue tied to the romantic intrigue (which, intrinsically, was the worst part of this novel) numbed the hell out of my mind. I wasn't a fan of most of the protagonists, and there's a strong deus ex machina running through the whole ending.
I really feel like Tau Zero would have worked much better as a short story. It's a short novel (about 200 pages), and it is fast-paced (no pun intended)... but it still felt drawn out and partly soporific. The dialogue tied to the romantic intrigue (which, intrinsically, was the worst part of this novel) numbed the hell out of my mind. I wasn't a fan of most of the protagonists, and there's a strong deus ex machina running through the whole ending.