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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October 29th, 2008

Richard Dawkins plans to take aim at Harry Potter. I think the article is overdone and I suspect Dawkins is not going to write a Harry Potter attack book (he admits to not having read Harry Potter). Rather, it sounds like he’ll write a book critical of the concept of giving kids a steady diet of fantasy without clear parameters about what is fantasy and what is fact. That is, myth as a way of perceiving the world rather than reason and fact. However, I think it is premature to speculate too much about what an unwritten book will say.

An update on Hubble repairs.

Robert Downey Jr. signs on for two Iron Man sequels and an Avengers movie. The ten-year-old kid in me is loving the future.

New long-wavelength observations of Epsilon Eridani identify multiple debris rings (aka asteroid belts). There are also implications for the existence of at least three gas giant worlds, and the system doesn’t look too different from our own at this stage. Check out the original science paper.

Seven greatest scientific hoaxes.

Science fiction rapidly become reality via baby gender selection. Now, killing unwanted babies has been going on forever in humans and most species, but now science lets us do it earlier and easier before it’s actually abortion, let alone murder. But this is still illegal, but only in some countries and not in others. Should it be? What are the consequences? Here’s the kicker. Unlike China or India where boys are a premium, in the west girls are preferred.

Tapping the Vortex for our Energy Needs.

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