Tau Zero

This is my first Poul Anderson book. My expectations might have been too high as I found it to be rather disappointing. The concept is pretty cool but the character development is lacking and portions of the dialogue were very poorly executed. I did feel that Anderson managed a great job of thinking through the hard science aspects of his story. It's a shame that that was the most interesting part of the book as there were several lengthy explanations of things like time-dilation, ship acceleration, the titular 'Tau' factor, etc, that made my eyes absolutely glaze over after a while.