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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
Bigfoot Body? Press Conference Friday
August 12th, 2008
One of my interests that skirts the fringes of well established science is cryptozoology. We haven’t yet discovered every animal, large or small, that we share this Earth with. For example, we had two stories over on tor.com in recent weeks: really tiny snake has recently been found, and John Scalzi wrote about the discovery of a previously unknown population of 125,000 gorillas.
One of the weirder cryptozoological topics out there is bigfoot, an allegedly large and unrecognized ape living in North America. It does seem improbable given that the US is a populous country with our high level of technology, but it isn’t impossible.
Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo has passed on a press release, which promises a press conference concerning the discovery of a “bigfoot body” on Friday, including both photographic and DNA evidence, with follow-up scientific studies to come. Loren cryptically alludes to additional information he’s been told privately that makes him somewhat optimistic that this is the real deal.
One of the biggest objects causal observers make about the bigfoot problem is that if these animals were for real, we’d have found a body. Well, maybe this is it. This would be cool, and a reminder that the world is a much more mysterious place than modern science allows for. I think it would shake things up in a good way. Skepticism is a good quality to have, but unbridled skepticism is as bad as unsupported belief.
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August 12th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
[...] SF author Mike Brotherton on cryptozoology and Bigfoot’s body [...]
August 13th, 2008 at 11:24 am
It looks like cryptomundo may have collapsed under the pressure, I can’t get a rendered page off of them at all…
August 13th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Yeah, Loren posted some pictures and the site collapsed. I’ve seen some versions on-line and will post what I can find.