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
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The other day someone emailed me with a question about a passage in my novel Star Dragon that bothered them. They were right to be bothered and I’m going to just say that we all goof from time to time, even over things we know pretty well, and in the spirit of Obama I’m going […]
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Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>My parents set up my first science fiction experience. They called me into the living room when I was about six (1974 give or take) and told me that they had a surprise for me. They then turned on the TV and there was Star Trek. Little did my parents, or myself, realize what happened […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments »>One of the reasons I love science fiction is that, frankly, I am easily bored and depressed by normal everyday life. I mean, TV commercials, ick! Pumping gas. Going to the bathroom. Showering. Shaving. Driving. Cleaning. Grocery shopping. Hours every day filled with so many things of little intrinsic interest, pretty much destined to never […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 16 Comments »>Let me go on the record for finally appreciating that my super elite college prep high school didn’t have debate. I heard a rumor that it was because the headmaster didn’t think it appropriate for students to argue positions they didn’t believe in. Let me state this clearly for the record: Debate is a ridiculous […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »>They say that the golden years are your last ones in life, the gold age of comic books was the 1940s, and while there was a similar boom in pulp sf, that the golden age of science fiction is when you were twelve. You’ve probably already seen this, or heard of it, but for those […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »>I’m ahead of the curve on science topics, usually, a bit behind on technology. At least compared to some of my very tech-savvy friends whom I talk with. I’m starting to catch up, a little. As an experiment, I have made an MP3 format recording of myself reading one of my shorter short stories, “The […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>I had a post over the weekend where I claimed that life on a planet around a type M star (see classifications here) would be like living in a red light district. Not the sex part, just the red light part. M stars are cool as stars go, around 3000 Kelvin or a bit less, […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »>NOTE: I’m keeping the below post as originally written. It will be superseded by a post to come as the issue is more complicated than I appreciated. A friend of mine has a story coming out and wanted to doublecheck some issues of colors on a planet orbiting an M-star. My friend supplied me with […]
Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »>Here’s a good write-up of some work related to mine that was also presented this week in St. Louis at the AAS meeting. It involves post-starburst galaxies, whose relationship to post-starburst quasars isn’t entirely clear to me just yet (I’m planning a project that should help answer that question to my own satisfaction next year). […]
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>Brian Green has an op-ed in the New York Times speaking about the personal importance of science in our lives. It is a good article, and meaningful, in my opinion. Science has enabled you to read this post, but it has also done so much more. Reflect on that. Sometimes I feel like I’m a […]
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