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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
Brief Saturday Starlinks
September 20th, 2008
Giant south american spiders stalking an oil refinery. Shades of Alien.
Record Gamma Ray Burst reported by Swift.
Space Foundation Honors Cosmic Poetry.
Galaxies are like people? [Cosmic Variance]
Scientific American on Storytelling.
Five Retarded Ideas for Space Travel that Might Work [cracked.com]
5. Giant Space Canon
4. Atomic Powered Spacecraft
3. Buzz Aldrin’s Martian Gravity Express
2. Man-Made Space Meat
1. Project Daedelus: 50,000 ton interstellar suicide machine
Think versions of this have been floating around for a while, and I’ve linked to others, but here’s a new one: Nanotechnology, the Casimir effect, and interstellar travel
The Army’s Totally Serious Mind Control Experiment. I think I already predicted this one in my post about ten superpowers you can have now.
I’m going to ignore all the stories about the twin shuttles preparing to service the Hubble Space Telescope, at least for now, and the ones about problems and delays at the Large Hadron Collider.
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September 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
Wouldn’t that be cannon?
Now, if it were a device in a series or such, then it would be part of the canon.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:40 am
But of course! I’ll leave it up there for posterity to chuckle at. My brother still laughs at me from some spelling mistake I made in 8th grade.
I’ve gotten lazy about my spelling with spellcheckers, like most people I imagine, but this entry I wrote in an internet cafe in Brazil and it thought every word was wrong. And wouldn’t have caught canon vs. cannon anyway.