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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May 25th, 2009

So, I think we’re past popping back to the Wordpress default. At least I hope so. Let’s catch up on starlinks before moving on to some new topics.

I really want to go to the American Classic Arcade Museum, and playing classic games online is not scratching the itch.

Sky Mall emailed me about buying Star Trek stuff, which I thought was cool for spam. The Captain’s chair is only $2700, and I am thinking about remodeling next year. I’ve spent nearly as much money on worse things. I heard a rumor that David Hartwell sat on the real thing at the Science Fiction Museum just before it opened, and the staff freaked out.

And now for something not so different, hot models in classic Trek uniforms. Series 2 has an Andorian, complete with antennas.

Men have a biological clock, even with Viagra, apparently. Dang!

Big science projects on the horizon (or above it, or below it…). Slideshow, so for the impatient:

1. Ocean observatories
2. Lunar observatory
3. LISA — space-based gravitational wave observatory
4. A mars return mission
5. Terrestrial Planet Finder, but acknowledges this may be dead.
6. CLIC, the compact linear collider (something post LHC)
7. ATLAST (a post James Webb Space Telescope)

If Carl Sagan were a Christian apologist. Video. Scary.

Kid loans out banned books from his locker. Go, kid, go! I hope this gets him laid, which is probably the ultimate reward a teenage guy could ask for. If his hormones are under control enough that he’d prefer something else, I hope he gets it. He deserves the world. [Edit: From the Boing-Boing link it seems that the kid may be a girl not a guy, and there are those who doesn't think she's real. Sigh. Stupid internet. Still a cool thing to do whenever there is censorship.]

Q&A with Brian Malow (includes Launch Pad mention).

Ben Bova on how science is not appreciated enough.

Technology in science fiction movies, portrayed correctly?

Science Not Fiction on the science of Fringe. (Also Popular Mechanics on the science of Fringe). [Via Biology in Science Fiction.]

Let’s end with popping a balloon in zero gravity:

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