The human colony on the planet Argo has long explored and exploited the technology left behind by an extinct alien race. But then an archaeology team accidentally activates a terrible weapon...
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"Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a voyage that is both fiercely credible and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction."
-- David Brin
"Star Dragon is terrific fare, offering readers a fusion of hard science and grand adventure."
-- Locus Magazine
"Star Dragon is steeped in cosmology, the physics of interstellar travel, exobiology, artificial intelligence, bioscience. Brotherton, author of many scientific articles in refereed journals, has written a dramatic, provocative, utterly convincing hard science sf novel that includes an ironic twist that fans will love."
-- Booklist starred review
"Readers hungry for the thought-provoking extrapolation and rigorous technical detail of old-fashioned hard SF are sure to enjoy astronomer Brotherton's first novel."
-- Publishers Weekly
"Mike Brotherton, himself a trained astrophysicist, combines the technical acuity and ingenuity of Robert Forward with the ironic, postmodern stance and style of M. John Harrison. In this, his debut novel, those twin talents unite to produce a work that is involving on any number of levels. It's just about all you could ask for in a hardcore SF adventure."
-- Paul di Fillippo, SCI-FI.COM
Continuing to think about science this week… A lot of people think they know what science is, and some of them are quite smart and generally well informed, but not on this topic. Let me give an a common misconception: Many people think that there is a progress of scientific knowledge that progresses from hypothesis […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »>As I look over my list of topics I want to write about soon, it’s clear that I’m thinking a lot about science at the moment. I’m a scientist and do science on a daily basis, or struggle to anyway, but I’ve had a lot of triggers to write about several aspects of science. I’ve […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »>Launch Pad is sucking up all my time, but I wanted to point out an article I wrote that’s just been released. Check it out: Neptune has just completed its first full orbit since being discovered in 1846. Steve H Silver marks the anniversary in his latest issue — Argentus: Neptune [PDF file] — with articles […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>I have an essay titled “The Cold Legacies” that just went up over at Lightspeed Magazine. This is based in part on an old blog post and lesson plan for my “Science in Science Fiction” course I’ve taught at the University of Wyoming. Anyway, it’s about Tom Godwin’s story “The Cold Equations,” some controversy concerning […]
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