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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
Today’s Starlinks
May 29th, 2009
Science fiction writers selling to the man–I mean–helping out Homeland Security. Past the giggle factor, apparently…
Paul Levinson with strong concerns about Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. I have some myself as I will nearly always pick individual liberty over the need to respect authority, especially when the authority is a douchebag. I think she’ll be easily confirmed, however. Read the article there — I’m not calling her a douchebag. There are other justices who have earned that title, however.
Mary Rosenblum, a high-quality science fiction writer you should check out if you haven’t, is profiled for her sustainable lifestyle. Interesting stuff, unless you’re squemish about raising bunnies for dinner. My grandparents did. We used to get letters with paragraphs starting, “We had Flopsy for dinner the other night…”
Are Today’s Kids Reading Enough Science Fiction? No, they are not. My sales could be much stronger.
Gaming oriented website, Grinding to Valhalla, interviewing science fiction and fantasy authors. I’m in the queue for sometime in the near future. Some good writers there on the list.
Astronomers learning more about accreting and spinning black holes. As usual, popular science story leaves something to be desired but I didn’t see outright mistakes or howlers.
Interview with David Williams on the release of his new novel, Burning Skies. Looks interesting to me, near-future science and tech with some space stuff.
Interview with Kelly McCullough on the release of his new novel MythOS. More computer-based science fantasy from Kelly.
Watchman parody for syndicated cartoonists, amusing. Thanks, Russ.
If Alvin Plantinga is really a well-regarded philosopher, I just have to say that philosophy is filled with idiots. It’s dissapointing, and perhaps I’m biased, but pretty much every critic of science who isn’t a scientist seems clueless to me. Worse than clueless. Outright stupid. Masters of B.S. who justify their own positions with nothing but crapola. I’m sure this is not true of many individuals, but I am reminded of The Black Swan and the well-supported claim that there are many fields without experts. I suspect philosophy is one of those.
Interesting sciencey blog I just discovered: http://www.weirdwarp.com/ Looks like good reading and informative.
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May 30th, 2009 at 6:12 am
I’ll second that comment about Plantinga. His “evolutionary argument against naturalism” is finest grade nonsense. The best thing I can say about him is that his arguments often employ a clever sophistical sleight of hand.
But when one is simply inventing rationalizations for articles of faith that’s probably the best that can be expected.