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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
New Exoplanet Imaged
September 15th, 2008
I’m now blogging for tor.com on science topics. My first post is now up and titled Alien Worlds, about a planet directly imaged around a sunlike star. It’s cool, although not as “direct” as “direct” implies.
For the first time astronomers have obtained an image of a likely planet orbiting a distant but sun-like star. Like a lot of claims back in the 1990s about repeated “first” discoveries of black holes, there are a number of issues to consider about these early announcements. We’re going to see a lot more “first” planet images of various sorts in years to come, and have already seen a couple around low-mass brown dwarf stars. Still, this is wicked cool and a hint of a flood of information to come about planets in our galaxy.
Anyway, check through to see the picture and be encouraged to comment over there so I don’t look like a waste of space…
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September 15th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
“and be encouraged to comment over there so I don’t look like a waste of space…”
don’t see how you could ever think that..
September 15th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
A joke from Contact…