Most Popular Posts
Search
-
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...
Read More. -
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
Non-Political Election Day Starlinks
November 4th, 2008
I am trying to give you, and myself, enough to look at rather than the endless election coverage.
Frozen mice cloned — woolly mammoths next?
How to write fast! (Internet review of science fiction, registration may be required)
A new kind of pulsar, the gamma-ray pulsar.
Cassini to look for evidence of life on one of Saturn’s moons (not Titan).
A new subatomic particle (not from the LHC)?
An ion shield for your interplanetary spacecraft.
Garth Ennis series “Preacher” and “The Boys” may come out from Columbia Pictures. (This would thrill me as much as The Watchmen, if done well — probably both should be X-rated.)
The Pope and Stephen Hawking meet, surprisingly don’t annihilate each other in a poof of gamma rays.
Seven of the most impressive/depressing geek collections.
Propulsion system for FTL interstellar space ship.
Texas board to determine school science curriculum stacked with creationists.
Interview with Richard Dawkins.
The liberalism of college professors not contagious to students.
Biases in science publishing leads to an excess of wrong results in the top journals?
Related Posts
Related Posts
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
<
November 4th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Hawking as met a previous Pope, IIRC, no gamma ray bursts then either!
As for Cassini, interesting stuff and a SF-ish scenario jumped to mind: given all the organic particles on Titan, what are the chances of cross-moon contamination? Hmmmmm…
What a shame, though, that NASA will have to choose between one future probe (Jupiter) and another (Saturn). Both planets and their moons deserve a lot more study!