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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September 30th, 2008

The Hubble Space Telescope is broken again. More so. I mean, most of the instruments had failed, but now the equipment that handles data transfer is down. This will delay the repair mission planned for a couple of weeks from now while they dig out and test the backup stored at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Silver lining: better this piece failed now and gets replaced as part of a rescheduled refurbishment mission than a few weeks after one.

Christian Grand Theft Auto? Missing the point, dude. Now, get out of your car and its fish-shaped magnet before I slap your ‘ho.

Forget the sands of Mars. Behold the snows of Mars.

Forget micro-black holes to eat the Earth…the LHC and the threat of the Bose Supernova (waiting for the Oasis version).

One of my buddies has started an educational webpage based on spaced learning: crammage.com. Check it out!

Charlie Stross says: “We are living in interesting times; in fact, they’re so interesting that it is not currently possible to write near-future SF.” [Via SF Signal] That’s crap, of course. Predicting the future correctly and writing near-future science fiction are not anything like synonymous, and only someone who doesn’t understand this would say what Charlie says.

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