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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The New Site Is Up and Has Always Been Up

December 15th, 2007

Sorry for the hiatus there, and hope you like the new look. We got the redesigned website up around Thanksgiving (thanks Jeremy!), but between holiday travel, the end of the semester crunch, and some additional travel immediately thereafter, I’ve been slacking. Waiting to formally launch until I could sustain regular posting again. I’ve still got plenty of links to update, too.

I’ll continue to post here about astronomy in the news and my thoughts about the modern scientific enterprise (or its rejection in some quarters), as well as science-fiction related topics as they occur to me. I’ll have news about various projects underway (an astronomy anthology, the Launch Pad writer’s workshop, forthcoming novels, appearances, and science fiction classes) . We’re mirroring www.mikebrotherton.com on livejournal and so should be more accessible to comments and community.

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