Tau Zero is often touted as one of the best hard science fiction novels of all time, and in fact the best hard science fiction story ever. I personally do not count it as either, but whatever it is, it is one darn good yarn in the hard SF tradition that takes a passable and very unique shot at a deep-space\/lost-in-space story with a healthy dash of social engineering. Where it does really succeed is in evoking a from-the-gut “WOW!” over its eye widening scope and idea. I give this three stars o[…]<\/a> Tau Zero is often touted as one of the best hard science fiction novels of all time, and in fact the best hard science fiction story ever. I personally do not count it as either, but whatever it is, it is one darn good yarn in the hard SF tradition that takes a passable and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2508,2474,2493,2470,2536,2503,2480],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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