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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Some Starlinks

May 18th, 2009

I am back in my university office in Porto Alegre and found some open browser windows, in addition to some new links of interest. If I posted and of these in March already, mea culpa! That seems like a lifetime ago already.

A primer on orbital mechanics, handy for sf writers.

Gary Gibson on hard sf.

And the newer links.

Lost Zelzany novel issued. Yay, new Zelazny from beyond the grave!

How a scientist’s theories may be related to their sex life. Funny cartoon for physics geeks, anyway.

Lessons in space repair at Hubble. Nice example for hard sf writers, too, it is.

Some physics based on the Star Trek movie. Interesting, but flawed, I think, as the red matter doesn’t do what I think they think it does. Follow me? I am probably still going to write my own post on the bizarro Trek physics, and will rant on at least one or two boneheaded pieces of astronomy. Phil Plait touched on them, but I still feel unhappy about them now a week later.

I had one other link today, but that website seems down. I will save it for later.

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