Spider Star
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...
Read More.Praise for Star Dragon
"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
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Sunday Starlinks
June 10th, 2012
The more I think about it, the more I think Prometheus sucked. 
Onward with the starlinks…
I’ve blogged about a similar notion, but consider here again What if everything is science fiction? (Wired)
Faster-than-light neutrinos definitely not. Scientists make mistakes, and science corrects them.
Atomic rockets, space colonies, and X-ray binaries.
Legitimate concerns about global catastrophe. I’m an optimist, and believer in technology to solve problems, but I also believe that prevention is the best medicine. We should listen to smart guys doing science. Maybe we will be able to do that with the Heartland Institute’s lies being challenged and their loss of supporters.
North Carolina recently embarrassed themselves by voting for discrimination, and nearly continued the trend by ignoring scientific reality concerning sea level, but decided that enough was enough. Science gets a little respect in North Carolina politics with the recognition that you can’t legislate sea level after all and not be laughed at.
I’ll be blogging more about this soon, as I’m reading and can recommend The Republican Brain, but for now here’s an article about how the scientific results that conservatives deny science are being denied by conservatives.
I’m considering 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Anyone read it yet?
The demise of guys: how video games and porn are ruining a generation of men. Only to people who are trying to force men into a particular role, and there are some guys, and girls, in any age who will take things too far. I’m going to play a little Diablo III later tonight in protest.
A Black Panther movie? Yes!
Six most half-assed superhero origins. Black Panther did not make it.
Preview of Before Watchmen. Want it.
Star Wars shot like a Spanish telenovella. Funny!
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