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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May 7th, 2008

io9 talks about getting the camp out of science fiction.

Bad Astronomy reports a photo of the newest of new moon.

There are apparently time travelers from the ancient past shocked at today’s street pornography.

Canada wants to build an army of Iron Men.

An interesting NASA story about a “super solar flare” from 1859. Naw, upgrade the “interesting” to “cool.”

A claim of a supermassive black hole being ejected from a galaxy merger. Theory just recently predicted this, and we’re seeing it already? Color me skeptical until I check out the journal paper. Hmm, okay, they put a question mark in the title. If this sort of thing were common or obvious, we’d have noticed it before it was predicted. I actually expect to read more about this topic this week in the pile of Hubble Space Telescope proposals I’m still working through (my panel has 4-5 on this topic).

James Nicoll’s blog today pointed at a neat Solar System Visualizer.

The Iron Sky trailer is available for your viewing pleasure. Looks cool, but definitely a dangerous degree of camp probably present. I mean, flying saucers and Nazis in space? And they make the stupid mistake of referring to the “dark side of the moon.” Grr. But it still looks kind of cool.

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