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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
What’s the Difference Between a Wolf and a Wolverine?
April 23rd, 2009
Hugh Jackman knows. And he lets this reporter know, too:
“Wolves are very popular this year,” The Dish Rag caught one reporter saying to Hugh Jackman, as she desperately tried to draw a parallel between the werewolves on “Twilight” and his Wolverine character in “X-Men.”
Most movie stars would have ripped this poor clueless girl’s head off.
Instead, classy Hugh corrects her in such a way that leaves her still wearing some shred of dignity.
At his handprint-footprint ceremony at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hugh patiently explains that she is making the same mistake he made before he started the first movie, when he learned that wolverines were not wolves at all, but small and very fierce (actually members of the badger family) creatures.
“We all feel like mutants some days,” he says, consolingly.
Now, I don’t know that reporters get their heads ripped off all that often…although maybe in those Wolfen movies, but I think a Wolfen is something else altogether.
Hugh Jackman is from Australia, so I perhaps it is understandable that he knew less about Wolverines that your average person, but a reporter covering Wolverine? Come on, do a little research, please.
Aside from the head ripping line, I like this article as it will teach people the difference while letting them feel okay about not knowing themselves. I can support zoology in the movies/news as much as astronomy!
And the reporter would have been fine if she’d just said, “Hairy creatures are popular this year, aren’t they?”
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April 23rd, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I also didnt know what a wolverine was, until I researched about it. Remembered me a Tazmanian Devil
it would be even more humiliating if Hugh Jackman was not a native english speaker, telling her what a wolverine was…
September 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
All one needs to know is a Wolverine is in the wheasle family as is a badger, not a wolverine is in the badger family.
WOlverines are the biggest land wheasles known. The biggest wheasle is the sea otter.
Wolverines are not only fearsome they are very strong. They don’t live in packs but a lone. They have padded feet with 5 toes and charp claws on each end to walk on the snow. They can climb trees too. They can smell dead meat 6 feet under the grownd btw.
Wwolverines have been know to hunt an elk and bring it down all by their lonesome, and they only are about 75 pounds tops. They even have been said to bring down a moose.
Wolverines are known to NEVER give up, once they get the sent of something they do not stop until they bring it down.
Wolverines have even been known to back down full grown grizzly bears and steal food from wolf packs. Very few animal if any will fight with a wolverine they ARE that bad!
Marvel mixed those facts into human form and tossed a little Clint Eastwood in to the pot, well A LOT Clint btw and BAM! you have Logan aka Wolverine 5′ 3′ of solid muscle and ferry! And lets don’t forget those mighty claws!