Clock Work Rocket / Original Title: the CLOCKWORK ROCKET (Shin Haya Kawa SF Series)

[Machine Translation] A universe governed by a different set of physical laws, slightly different from our own. Yalda, a female physicist who investigates the increase of a strange phenomenon called "fast-rising stars," learns that their planet is about to be destroyed. Yalda and her team do not have a plan to avert the crisis. However, if they build a huge rocket and send it into deep space, the peculiarities of this universe will create an infinite amount of time inside the rocket. Within a few years on the planet, we will be able to develop science and technology far beyond what we have today, and we will be able to save the planet! Despite the lack of understanding and criticism of their plan, Yalda and her team embark on this unprecedented undertaking... The start of the space science fiction trilogy by one of the greatest science fiction writers of our time, Egan!

わたしたちの世界とは少し違う、別の物理法則に支配された宇宙。奇妙な現象「疾走星」の増加を調べる女性物理学者ヤルダは、彼女たちの惑星が壊滅間近であることを知る。危機回避のための策は、いまのヤルダたちにはない。しかし巨大ロケットを建造して深宇宙に送りだせば、この宇宙の特異性のためロケット内では無限の時間が生みだされる。惑星上での数年のうちに現在よりはるかに科学技術を発展させ、惑星を救えるにちがいない!計画への無理解と批判にさらされながら、ヤルダたちはこの前代未聞の大事業に取りかかるが...。現代最高のSF作家イーガンの宇宙SF三部作、開幕!