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."
-- 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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A Busy Day: Science, SETI, Iowa, and Editing

January 3rd, 2008

OK, I was finally going to do my rant — I mean well-reasoned call for sanity — about “stupid smart people,” but then I came across a bunch of items of interest to me. So I’ll save stupid smart people for another day.

First up, Dennis Overbye, a fine science writer whose work appears regularly in the New York Times: Laws of Nature, Source Unknown. It’s an article inspired by an exchange in the NYT’s editorial pages about the nature of universe and the “faith” of scientists. Overbye is always worth reading.

And SETI is apparently drowning in data (300 GB a day) and there’s new demand for Seti@Home to process it all.

So we have the Iowa Caucuses today, and maybe we can plow through the selection process in less time than it’s already been going on. I don’t like any of the Republicans at all for a variety of reasons. Mike Huckabee, in particular, I find unacceptable for reasons articulated by Lawrence Krauss in an op-ed piece he did about Science and the Candidates. I like many of the Democrats, but am concerned that several of them, including Obama, see space exploration and NASA as sources of funding to pillage for other pet projects of theirs, as compiled here.

Finally some personal science news. I’ve accepted an invitation to the Editorial Board of a new peer-reviewed journal, Advances in Astronomy, which I think will be educational enough to offset the (hopefully modest) time commitment. Now I’ll get a much more complete look at the peer review process.

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