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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"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
Last night I caught the much discussed Discovery Channel episode of Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking dealing with aliens. The initial clip on the website is “Fear the Aliens” which is the controversial bit. Hawking, unlike Carl Sagan, apparently thinks that we would have much to fear from technologically advanced aliens and that we […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 9 Comments »>No, Seth Shostak is not a Predator, although that would be a cool book… Seth is a radio astronomer who works for the SETI Institute hunting for alien signals from space, and he has a book out called Confessions of an Alien Hunter which is about SETI and his personal experiences with the project. You […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »>So I guess I’m on a SETI kick right now as I’m reading Seth Shostak’s new book (which I will review soon). I was trying to think of all the books, movies, and TV shows that portrayed SETI in at least a somewhat realistic manner. I could not think of too many. When it comes […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 11 Comments »>It’s the time of the year when I start thinking about the schedule of activities for the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers. Most of the things we’ve done have been very popular and successful, but there was one controversial thing last year that I probably won’t repeat, at least not in the same form. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 17 Comments »>Not every scientist has an interest in science fiction or anything resembling the ability to think like a science fiction writer. I was reminded of this again today in regard to this story about how to focus SETI searches. Basically, the idea is that it is easier in principle to find and characterize Earth-like planets […]
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