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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January 15th, 2009

Apparently if you’re a doctor who has worked on vaccines extensively, understand the research concerning their association or lack thereof to autism, and publish a book, you will get death threats. We have to protect the children, apparently, by punishing or killing adults who aren’t actually threatening the children.

In a similar vein, report finds online threats to children overblown. This report manages to get some high-profile DAs angry because it’s wrong based on their own political careers…unless they too are overblown. Fear-mongering always seems to make great politics because who doesn’t want to be safe? The problem is that safe from everything is impossible, and safe from unlikely things is a waste of resources but easy to show success.

The Pope is upset about all the false visions of the Virgin Mary and Jesus out there, and wants to tell people how to tell the difference between real hallucinations and fake halluciantions. The stupid in this is staggering and obvious, and I don’t know why people listen to someone like this in the 21st century. It is literally someone saying, “All these reports of ghosts are of course ridiculous and it’s sad. Except for a few that I endorse. Those are real, and only I can tell you which ones are those.”

Worst comic book ever. Warning NSFW and is at least R-rated. I did laugh out loud, however, literally, and that happens a lot less often than “LOL” would imply.

James Wallace Harris asks about how to introduce physics to your friends? Indeed, not easy if they missed it in school, which is too easy to do.

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