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 Amazing Spider-Links
July 8th, 2012
My wife and I finally made it to see The Amazing Spider-Man last night. It was pretty good, but suffered from being a reboot not so long after a pretty successful initial Spider-Man movie. I’m likely to also write a post soon about some traps superhero films fall into too often and I don’t want to see any more (certain formulaic elements and mainstream assumptions that lead to an avoidance of fully embracing their subject). Let me cap off this introductory topic to an article about the science of Spider-man.
Something else amazing…Amazing Stories is back! The classic magazine has died and returned to life more times than a George Romero zombie movie franchise. It’s back again and let’s support Steve Davidson and his amazing effort. I will…
How Curiosity will land on Mars. The phrase “are they nuts” comes up a lot.
Space science…denied! Sad story for a young teenage scientists.
And the everyday denial of climate change (mostly about the emotional and psychological basis for deniers — not the full blown politically motivated conservative science deniers, just the more casual people aware of climate change who manage not to think about it).
Through a very amusing experiment, Stephen Hawking denies time travel.
And on light pollution:
After the very disappointing Prometheus (and the Phantom Menace)…here are 20 prequels too awesome to exist. Sorry for the slide show. Some are pretty damn funny.
Also funny, but probably a one-note joke overplayed…Fucking Dracula, and other similar titles. Probably will make more money than my novels…sigh. I mean, fucking sigh.
Game of Thrones with light sabers:
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