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...
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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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A Slew of Starlinks

March 4th, 2009

Here comes a flood…some good stuff, and some strange stuff. A little commentary.

First, let’s start with something dumb. DUMB. “Suddenly I feel like studying physics.” Honestly, this isn’t very amusing or sensible. It targets the guys who are likely to study physics anyway, doesn’t attract guys with social skills or the ability to see girls frontsides, and neglects most girls altogether. And who picked these girls and dressed them and thought it was hot???

Some continuing discussion of stories in Diamonds in the Sky in the Discover blog Science Not Fiction. Wil McCarthy’s story today.

Ten things you didn’t know about the sun, from Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy. Good article.

Apparently children cry when you tell them their superhero identities are dumb. For some reason Stan Lee’s superhero reality show uses kids in England. Too serious and too silly at the same time, I fear.

Word Knowledge is Power for WordGirl! Animation.

ABC cancels Life on Mars, but is going to let the serious have a graceful finish.

Pushing Daisies creator pushing for a new Star Trek with the feel of the original show. Personally I’d love to see it on HBO or Showtime and see what happens with the alien babes. Fascinating.

Dream battles. Mindless fun “what if” match-ups.

A positive review of The Watchmen. I’m going to try to see a Friday matinee here in Rio de Janeiro.

Vatican official calls atheist theories absurd. Vatican idiot more like it. A typical strawman attack putting words in someone’s mouth to mischaracterize their position. Dawkins and no atheist I have ever talked with or read has claimed that evolution proves god doesn’t exist. And even if the argument was characterized correctly, pot, kettle, black. Shall we extract the wine and wafer from someone’s stomach to do a DNA test on Jesus??? I’ll give you absurd, Vatican nitwit. I could do this every day all my life.

On preaching to the unconverted.

More idiots. Southwest Airlines has a plane with a bikini-clad model, and people are complaining of exposing old people and kids to “soft-core porn.” Some positions should be ridiculed. Let’s go hang drapes on more Greek statues already. Sheesh. Here in Rio I can go see this on the beach now, in public, with kids and old people, and on any beach in the U.S., too.

Google’s Eric Schmidt twitters about Twitter. Should I twitter? Do I have to?

Virtual coocoon will allow sofa safari. New, cool VR tool. Have to say that “sofa safari” is a dumb phrase and makes me think of the wrong thing completely.

Oh yeah, a big asteroid just narrowly missed hitting Earth. Yikes! I don’t know why we don’t take a small fraction of what we spent on Iraq and just do an awesome job on this problem. Seems like a no brainer to pump a billion dollars of stimulus package here.

Free Science Fiction Novels!!! Go to the Suvudu free book library. The first five books they’re giving away are Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb; Her Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik; Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson; Settling Accounts: Return Invasion by Harry Turtledove; and Blood Engines by Tim Pratt.

And finally, Is Writing for the Rich?

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