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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
Frakking Starlinks
September 3rd, 2008
Haven’t got too far on the new projects to share, so in the meantime…
Frak you. Yeah, it’s dumb to make up words like this, except when they work. And “frak” works. And because it’s TV and they don’t let you say the real thing anyway.
The hockey stick of global warming is still alive and frakking, as I alluded to yesterday. New results support the original claims. The last decade has been the warmest in the northern hemisphere in the last 1300 years or so.
Did you know you can see meteors frak the moon with a backyard telescope? I didn’t, actually. It’s pretty cool to think about.
Some people are apparently upset that there may be clones in the frakking food supply, even though “it would be impossible to know because there is no difference between cloned and conventional products.” Hmm. Is it scare mongering or responsible reporting? You decide.
Ask an astronaut with an interesting video of Buzz “Frakking” Aldrin, whiskey drinker. Seriously though, first-hand information like this is priceless to writers so check it out.
MythBuster Adam Savage suggests three ways to not frak up science education: let students get their hands dirty, spend more money on science, and celebrate mistakes. I can get behind these, although they all have to be handled well.
Nice picture gallery of the preparations to fix the currently frakked-up Hubble one last time as the mission approaches.
Frakking guy toy of the day: 18k Gold LG Iron Man Phone
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September 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 am
Do you remember the Farscape version, “frell”? Farscape also had the excremental descriptive, “dren.” The writers committed the sin of inconsistency by allowing a character to utter the confusing phrase “bull-frell.” Clearly, bovine mating habits was not intended. Maybe that’s why Farscape was cancelled in mid story arc and Battlestar will get to have a frakking great conclusion.
September 3rd, 2008 at 8:28 am
Interesting point. I never thought “frell” worked that well. It just didn’t sound hard enough, if that makes sense. As an aside, I’m learning curse words in Portuguese now and they really have little context for me and it’s fun to say them and as the foreigner everyone lets me, at least for the moment.