Leonora Christine

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This article is about the fictional spaceship. For the Danish princess, prisoner, and folk heroine, see Leonora Christina

Leonora Christine is a fictional spaceship appearing in Poul Anderson's novel Tau Zero, published in 1970. This spaceship travels first between stars and later between galaxies, becoming one of the few famous fictional starships in literature that leave not only our solar system, but also our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

The storyline is reminiscent of the long poem and later opera Aniara where the ship also was unable to stop and doomed to travel endlessly. Anderson's novel has a more upbeat ending, however: when all hope is gone, the crew finally find a drastic solution to their situation (albeit the solution does not conform to modern thinking on the evolution of the universe).