A review by adam_mcphee
Tau Zero by Poul Anderson

3.0

The science fiction part was audacious: the starship Leonora Christine travels at close to the speed of light to investigate setting up a colony on a new world. The crew has to deal with relativity and time dilation, and things only get worse as circumstances conspire to keep the ship from decelerating. Sadly, the characters are all incredibly dull. Most of them want to leave Earth so they can have more and different kinds of sex (the book was written in 1970, go figure), while the others just moan about how depressed they are.