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 Nine Largest Science Projects in the World

June 20th, 2008

From Discoverychannel.ca, in various stages from just completed, to underway, to on the drawing board:
1. Large Hadron collider at CERN

2. Next-stop, cold fusion?: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)

3. The finished International Space Station, circa 2011

4. A 3,000-foot-tall “Solar tower” in the Australian outback

5. The largest-scale climate-change simulator on Earth

6. James Webb Space Telescope

7. The Svalbard “Doomsday” Seed Vault

8. Space elevator

9. The ANTARES underwater neutrino detecting array
My own research is feeling small and insignificant, even though I deal with galaxies hundreds of thousands of light years across hosting black holes of billions of solar masses, outshining stars by billions of times, billions of light years away.

Oh, wait. My research feels big and impressive again!

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