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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More Exoplanet Images!

November 13th, 2008

Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy has the scoop. Included is a different image release on HR 8799, which is more conservative and only claims a detection of the two outer planets, not three as described in the now vanished Keck press release. I suspect that there has been some disagreements on the team about how to present this, and they are fighting over being bold and possibly wrong, or being conservative with a still great result and no risk of a mistake.

Also quite astonishing is ANOTHER planet from a DIFFERENT star that Hubble has managed to image. It’s like astroX-mas today!

Phil has already done a great job posting about these, so I encourage you to go over there to read more.

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