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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NASA Budget Boosted for, Get This, Science!

June 19th, 2008

There’s already a nice write-up by Phil over at badastronomy.com, so check out the story there.

I hope one short-term even as a result of the budget moving forward is that I get my renewal of my existing long-term grant approved soon. Sometimes it doesn’t happen until July, and there have been changes at NASA in space science, and it’s never 100% certain that the grant will continue to exist for its promised term. It’s always conditional on budgets.

Update: And it’s not happening soon. Due to the reshuffling, the report didn’t get properly forwarded and they just requested I send a new copy, close to a month after I sent the first one…

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