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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
End of the Week Starlinks
November 22nd, 2009
I’ve had a hard time catching up with things this week, post grant proposal, and also having a visiting collaborator/house guest. I have piled up some really interesting links, however, and am passing them on now. I also feel like I’ve made some personal breakthroughs concerning science communication that I will blog about soon.
Really nice list of 15 inventions inspired by science fiction.
35 Amazing Science Fair Projects. I think most of them are even real. Scary more than amazing.
Sometimes cosmology in the news doesn’t sound so cool. Sometimes it stinks. Mysterious “dark flow” extends to edge of the Universe.
Sagan-Man! I love xkcd.
Bad sex in fiction. It’s enough that bad sex exists in real life, isn’t it?
It turns out that the Secret Diary of a Call Girl was based on the real life story of a scientist putting herself through school. A little sordid, but I approve. Scientists can be hot, too. Hot like Billie Piper.
Racist math. Yeah, I think it qualifies. I’m all for being innovative and interesting to motivate students, but still…
John Scalzi on the issue of bad science in Star Trek and science eduction more generally. Highly recommended reading, whether you agree with him or not. And JJ Abrams about Star Trek 2.
High-tech tattoos. Cool! Mood skin coming…
A story about a Stephen King appearance and his new book.
Here are two io9 links about superhero comic stuff. About unfilmable stories and bad retcons.
Pictures of the surface of the sun. Cool. No, wait…hot!
A library bitch censoring Alan Moore graphic novel. Librarians are great, doing an important job, but like cops, the bad ones need to destroyed.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 11:32 pm
Racist Math - The teacher who put up that paper is a complete idiot. Typing in multiply and divide in Google does not even bring up the image in question. It does not show up even with quotation marks used for Google to include only those words together. So he obviously deliberately picked that image. Idiot.
John Scalzi on Bad Science In Star Trek - I pretty much agree with him. Movies take certain liberties for stories at the expense of factual accuracy. Granted I’d like to see more real science in the movies, it’s not going to happen.
On a side note, Mr. Scalzi is going to be appearing at the Phoennix Comicon. I’m pretty excited about that and there appears to be many more great guests too. http://phoenixcomicon.com/index.php?option=com_fjrelated&view=fjrelated&layout=blog&id=0&Itemid=24
High-Tech Tattoos - Reminds me of the OCTattoos in Pandora’s Star that I’m reading. Though instead of blood sugar levels, one can directly interface with a computer thanks to the tats.
Library Bitch - Ugh. People like her disgust me. She’s shocked at the graphic sex in the comic? I guess she never reads many books because I have read many depictions of graphic sex and violence in just books. But since there’s no pictures involved, they’re ok.
November 24th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
That library bitch…a Fascist loonie.