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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
Does this scene from The Watchmen look X-rated to you?
March 6th, 2009
Movieguide protests The Watchmen’s R-rating:
“This movie contains extreme violence, nudity, and sex, including rape” said Dr. Ted Baehr, chairman and spokesmen of the Commission. “Throughout most of the whole picture, one male character walks around completely naked, with his private parts waving in the breeze.
“This kind of content used to be rated X or NC-17,” Dr. Baehr added. “The motion picture industry keeps changing its standards. No wonder the MPAA’s rating system confuses parents.”
Dr. Baehr said, “The MPAA office told us that it would bring our concerns about this movie and its rating to their board. Whatever they decide, we appreciate the board taking another look at this issue. Even so, the movie industry needs to clean up its act and stop inserting graphic violence, sex, nudity, and drug use into its movies.
“After all, would ‘Casablanca’ become an even better work of art if the script contained a bunch of “f” words, or if Ingrid Bergman appeared completely nude? Definitely not!”
This last point is pretty debatable in my opinion. But let’s check out The Watchmen (thanks, Chris!):
What do you think? Definitely scary, but X-rated?
Parents arriving in a few hours…still quandrified…
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March 6th, 2009 at 10:36 am
“I’m nutty!”
March 6th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Wow, that cartoon was completely goofy, and you can’t help but pick up the colorful way they hint at the dark, dark events of the book. Wow, that’s goofy.
March 7th, 2009 at 9:50 am
It’s goofy and nutty, I agree!!!
I liked that, too, Don, how some of the oddest and darkest moments are twisted into light-hearted fun.
March 8th, 2009 at 5:47 am
“After all, would ‘Casablanca’ become an even better work of art if the script contained a bunch of “f” words, or if Ingrid Bergman appeared completely nude? Definitely not!”
Ah, idiots. By their reasoning ‘Casablanca’ would be a better film if there was no shooting and nobody died, and if nobody smoked or drank alcohol, since they’re against violence and drug use in films too.
What would they make of ‘Requiem for a dream’ - without drug use, the movie has no point.
Each story uses what’s appropriate to it. These simple-minded blanket statements that films would be better with no violence, drug use, nudity, etc are so frustratingly stupid.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Do private parts really wave in the wind? Does the wind have to be of a sufficient speed to make them wave?
The things you wonder about…
March 9th, 2009 at 11:12 am
watchment did show male private parts over and over..why i have no idea..it was in poor taste…no one wants to see that !
March 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Michele, there’s a point to that if you think about it. Over the years, Dr. Manhattan loses touch with his humanity. As he does so, he wears less and less clothing, until finally he prefers to wear nothing at all since he is no longer bound by human society whatsoever. It is not gratuitous, and not in poor taste in my opinion as it was very effective in communicating his differences whether you got the meaning overtly or not.