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
Chandra :: Photo Album :: 1E 0657-56 :: 21 Aug 06 The issue of the reality of dark matter has kept coming up recently in my life, both in the writing and educational spheres. I recently finished copy edits on the new book (SPIDER STAR will hit stores in March 2008 and I’ll blog about […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>First a couple of things before I get into the heart of the post. Today we had our first snow of the season. If you think it’s early, the last three years in Laramie it snowed before the first day of fall. I’m just hoping right now it slacks off and I don’t have to […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on What is great science fiction?>I finished reading Probability Sun by Nancy Kress on the Hawaii trip, and wanted to plug it here. Probability Sun won the John W. Campbell award for best science fiction novel a few years ago and it was well deserved. Set in the same universe as her award-winning story “The Flowers of Aulit Prison,” Probability […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Probability Sun>Actually, no we don’t. I sometimes hear people say, or see them write in an online forum, that university professors have it easy. They say that we get a job for life and only have to teach a class or two at a time and, gee, isn’t that easy? Hardly. I haven’t posted here in […]
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