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
In addition to being a great writer, Eric Nylund is an old friend of mine. I first met him and became a fan of his at the Clarion West Writing Workshop back in the 1990s. Eric has written original science fiction and fantasy for well over a decade now, and more recently has hit the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »>I’m not exactly talking about ebooks or transitions of technology. I’m talking about Larry McMurtry’s contention that we may be living in the twilight of the novel. (Note that he happens to be giving his talk on this topic, ironically perhaps, at Rice University where I literally read hundreds of novels as an undergraduate in […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »>So I saw a story about a new educational website run out of Berkeley called Understanding Science. I’m very supportive of such things in general, and I like a lot of things on the site. Unfortunately — you what is coming by now, don’t you? — there’s some politically correct biased rubbish in there as […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »>I read fantasy and like it. It isn’t always my first choice, but I really love a great fantasy book. While there are some deeply profound and moving fantasy novels, I look to fantasy especially for escapism. I still expect it to be self-consistent but I don’t have to tear my hair out over it […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 18 Comments »>They say that the golden years are your last ones in life, the gold age of comic books was the 1940s, and while there was a similar boom in pulp sf, that the golden age of science fiction is when you were twelve. You’ve probably already seen this, or heard of it, but for those […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »>I’m not talking about the interesting TV show, Life on Mars, but an Einstein quote from a letter he wrote in 1933 to a professional musician living in Germany: I am the one to whom you wrote in care of the Belgian Academy…Read no newspapers, try to find a few friends who think as you […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »>I was reading a book of quotes, and one of the notes mentioned that Einstein, much to my consternation, believed that people should NOT read science fiction. His reasoning? It distorts science, and gives people the illusion of understanding science. Hmm, shades of Buzz Aldrin here. I have some of the same objections as Einstein, […]
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