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
Geoffrey Landis, multiple Hugo and Nebula award winning author and NASA scientist, will be the Launch Pad Guest Instructor for 2012. Dates are not yet determined, but likely the 2nd or 3rd week of July as usual. Applications will open March 1 as usual as well. Personally, I’m thrilled. Geoffrey Landis is the kind of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>Got some Launch Pad related news coming up this week, and I have some books to plug as well. But tonight is for starlinks. Bad news for the James Webb Space Telescope. It’s still not officially terminated, but revised budgets and dates are up. Way up. This does not bode well, I fear. Here’s another [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>Here’s the press release from NASA: RELEASE : 11-273 NASA And Tor-Forge Books Partner In Themed Science Fiction Works GREENBELT, Md. — In an effort to introduce, inform and inspire readers about NASA, the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. has partnered with Tor-Forge Books to develop and publish a series of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>I have multiple computers were I find and record links…and while I prefer to consolidate them once a week, I didn’t do that this past week. Here are more for today, and hopefully more original thoughts coming up soon. Will the ipad revolutionize comic books, or destroy them? Reading comics is one reason I’m considering [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>School resumes this week, and I’ll be teaching graduate cosmology. Should be fun again, and I’ll put some effort into keeping it fresh. Here’s one thing I might spend more time on: the latest evidence that the fine structure constant may have changed over cosmological time. The measurement is not quite significant, but it isn’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>This is a video from an event in Jackson back in June where I spoke about science and scientists in the movies, primarily science fiction but a bit more than that, too. The talk plus questions is just under an hour. A lot of stuff in here that I’m all about, so if you do [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »>I decided not to attempt regular blogging on the current vacation, and to try to relax more and worry less about various obligations, at least this week. Back to the rat race in a few days, including blogging. I hope everyone is having a nice time here at the end of summer. I start teaching [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>One of my more popular posts is Five Qualities Required to be a Scientist. In response, I get a lot of comments and email from kids / teenagers who want advice about how to become a scientist. Now, as a practical matter, being a scientist is like being a writer. No one makes you into [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | 19 Comments »>Got posts to do, focusing on getting a paper finished while my collaborator from China is visiting. In the meantime, enjoy this! I do… Share/Bookmark
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