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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Six Sexy Smart Guys in Science & Science Fiction

July 5th, 2009

Women find smart guys sexy. Here are some smart guys women seem to prefer.

Neil De Grasse Tyson: Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive. Hey, that People magazine seems to be an authority on this sort of thing!

As a teenager at New York City’s prestigious Bronx High School of Science, Neil de Grasse Tyson had a surefire strategy for romancing girls: He’d grab his telescope, bring his date to the roof of the nearby apartment building where he lived with his family and promise her the stars. “Rooftops are ideal for exploring both kinds of heavenly bodies,” says Tyson, 42, who later went on to perfect his technique at Harvard.

In my experience, meteor showers also make great dates, but please don’t make out all the time or you’ll miss the show!

James Spader as Dr. Daniel Jackson in Stargate, is sexier than tough guy Kurt Russell. Embedding of Stargate clips has been disabled, but there is no shortage of “Why James Spader is Sexy” videos on Youtube:

Jeffrey Goldblum in his day played a lot of scientists, in films like The Fly, Jurassic Park, and Independence Day. And Geena Davis at least found him pretty sexy, as well as more Youtube fans.

Gil Grissom from CSI. My ex-wife sure thought he was sexy, and he kept pulling the “scientist” card. Here he is flirting with a Dominatrix:

Einstein got laid like a rockstar.

A couple of years ago many of Einstein’s personal letters were finally released leading to a plethora of stories in the press. One that predated the release of the letters, citing Einstein’s well-known tendencies, proclaims “Einstein was a BabeMagnet.”

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