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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
Friday Happenings
April 11th, 2008
Several things going on of interest.
I’m blogging today over at sfnovelists.com about book reviews from the perspective of a writer.
There’s a thoughtful article on space.com about work trying to quantify the likelihood of intelligent life arising on planets in other star systems. This is a potentially big problem, the fact that stars do evolve on the main sequence, and this constrains the good times of planets in the inhabitable zone.
And there was an article with pics of a winged jetpack that gave me flashbacks to Condorman!
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April 13th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Do you want to discuss that article here or over at sfnovelists?
April 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Probably. I should have just posted it here Saturday to avoid skipping a day given my schedule.
April 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Um. I don’t think the question I asked is usefully asnwered with “probably”, although I accept that it can be answered that way.
April 13th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Indeed. So much for my reading comprehension in a hurry. Over there.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:44 am
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