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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"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."
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-- 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."
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I Am Thankful for Science Fiction
November 27th, 2009
I am thankful for the Man-Kzin wars.
I am thankful for psychohistory.
I am thankful for the World of Tiers.
I am thankful for robots.
I am thankful for artificial gravity.
I am thankful for ray guns, blasters, lasers, phasers, and photon torpedoes.
I am thankful for space elevators, bean stalks, skyhooks, and the Fountains of Paradise.
I am thankful for aliens to speak with via radio, invade my planet, and probe my butt.
I am thankful for an Alien with acid for blood.
I am thankful for novas, supernovas, black holes, quasars, gamma ray bursts, and other things that go boom in the night.
I am thankful for a peek beyond the blue event horizon.
I am thankful to take the red pill.
I am thankful for stepping disks.
I am thankful for meteor shit.
I am thankful for powered armor.
I am thankful for Starship Troopers fighting Forever Wars.
I am thankful for Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Marc Singer.
I am thankful for the luck of Teela Brown.
I am thankful for Mars.
I am thankful for the spice that must flow.
I am thankful for Hal singing Daisy.
I am thankful for alien-human hybrids.
I am thankful for the theory of simultaneity.
I am thankful for hyperspace.
I am thankful for jaunting.
I am thankful for nightfall.
I am thankful for the Sleepless.
I am thankful for space babes.
I am thankful for the incomparable Dejah Thoris.
I am thankful for Caprica Six and 7 of 9.
I am thankful because there can be only one.
I am thankful to boldly go where no man has gone before.
What are you thankful for?
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I am thankful that our robot overlords let me use the cyberspace to write this comment. Their realizing that allowing puny carbon-based working units like us to use cyberspace on recreationnal purposes during their 2 hours resting period actually helps improving production, has truly improved the quality of life on mining colony theta-rho7544//8//B.
I am thankful that I was allowed to mate on a monthly basis with female worker Alpha75849621. I did not know that the process of producing new carbon-based working units could be so enjoyable, and I hope our mating permit will not be revoked any time soon.
I am thankful we won the war against the inter-dimensionnal hordes of Hy’aglar, for I am convinced working for our robot Overlords is a more enjoyable fate than being processed as dry food for giant insectoid methane breathers.
I am thankful for the Holy Trinity of Prophets Q-Brick, Kam-Ron and R-Bert, who foresaw that one day, carbon-based working units shall rise free of the tyranny of our sentient but mechanical Overlords.
Thank you, word-producer Brother-Ton, for allowing me to express non-productive feelings here, and for regularly producing words and texts that make my soul dream of things unknown.
Carbon-based working unit Nom-Ad/Z//788/5552C,
Year 239 of the Age of Skaï-Netth.
Oh yeah, I’m also thankful for 7 of 9 😉
I’m thankful that, so far, only one science fiction writer has created an organized religion.
And I’m deeply thankful that no one has turned Philip K. Dick’s Exegesis into the scripture for a new faith….though it would be fun having a religion whose followers everybody naturally referred to as Dickheads.
Oh, and I’m thankful for T’pol.
I am thankful for The Dispossessed: the sf novel which features simultaneity – no less! It was one of the first novels i’ve ever read, bought second hand for next to nothing. Le Guin completely immerses you in its strange world and has some profound truths about human nature but told with a kind of simplicity that doesn’t put off the young reader. A classic indeed.
Also, thankful for Mike’s great novel Spider Star which I read at least 5 times 😉
-Thankful for the Wild Card series edited by GGRM.
-Thankful for Stephen King
And for Sci-fi in general, for making life bearable, enabling me to move past my mundane existence.
And I’m thankful for this website. It’s much more than merely a portal to other sites … but of course that goes without saying.
Thanks, guys! And everyone for the comments. I love a lot of those things, too.