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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
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Starlinks for New Year’s Eve

December 31st, 2008

I wanted to start out by pointing at James Wallace Harris’s great blog, that has really picked up over the holidays. He pays a lot of attention to science fiction, and my favorite recent post is about “Science fiction in my lifetime.”

New hope for science education under Obama. A new hope? Wasn’t that episode IV back in 1977? Carter didn’t pan out so well. Let’s hope Obama does better.

And an article about an innovative math program in Oregan that has 3rd graders doing algebra. Cool. Algebra really isn’t very hard. It is very intuitive and comes up in everyday life in a way that a lot of other math at a similar level rarely days (geometric proofs and trigonometry are useful in specialized situations but come up less often for most people).

Cop’s new non-lethal weaponry. 21st century tech, cool! Let’s just hope this doesn’t get abused. I mean, billy clubs are also non-lethal weaponry, old school, but still cause a lot of problems. Don’t taser me, bro!

Apparently job recruiters are being told to avoid hardcore gamers of the World of Warcraft variety. Why? Duh, if you’ve seen the Southpark episode about WoW and Cartman’s mom cleaning him up as he craps in his chair, still playing the game.

Looking toward New Year’s Resolutions, here’s an article about a website called stickk.com to economically motivate reaching your goals in a timely manner.

Apparently being a professor is a vastly overrated career choice. Ouch. I agree with some, but not all, of the points. Some are so dead-on it’s scary for me to read them because they bring up memories. But suggested alternatives like “University Librarian” don’t seem very appealing to me, I have to say.

Oh, and let’s wrap up with an article about some silly people convinced based on little more than their personal impression that wi-fi must be stopped due to its negative health effects. Do a study and show the effect! The ones that have been done find nothing. So, please, or be quiet. Sick of people believing things without any compelling evidence.

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