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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Saturday Starlinks

November 14th, 2009

I have a grant proposal eating my life right now, and snow, and a friend to get at the airport tomorrow. I’m clearing my plate a little posting some starlinks.

If 195os engineers redesigned the human body. I’m a little split between this being cool and stupid. I report. You decide.

How do lesbians respond to the goddamn Batman?

Superheroes on 1970s vans. I LOVE this link! Can I get number 10?

NASA finds “significant amount” of water on the moon. Screw Mars. Let’s have a lunar jacuzzi.

The Rosetta satellite and the Pioneer gravitational anomaly. Interesting. I’d love to see a resolution. The difference between a scientist and the average person is that for me the only point to a mystery is to solve it, despite the romanticism of not knowing.

And finally, Brian Malow for Time Magazine on the Herschel Space Telescope, which I hope to use in the near future myself:

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