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In a destiny where biotechnology is as distinguished as any other, Biolathe, Inc., wants to make an rare long-term investment. A deep-space examine to a cataclysmic binary star System SS Cygni, 245 light-years from Earth, has detected a singular lifeform: a star dragon. Living in a blazing plasma of a violet summation hoop feeding a white dwarf star, these visitor creatures guarantee rare advances in technology...and profit.
A group of experts, any roving for their possess deeply hold reasons, assembles for a epic expedition. These formidable though shining explorers, along with a starship Karamojo's synthetic intelligence, Papa, embark into an different destiny seeking fame, fortune, find in an journey of visitor hit in a many antagonistic sourroundings imaginable. Alone in low space, they will be tested to their boundary and to a boundary of their record to wring a secrets from creatures done of star things with chief furnaces for hearts, a esteem value a risk.
"Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as manly and entirely mature as Mike Brotherton. His formidable characters take we on a excursion that is both fiercely convincing and astonishingly imaginative. This is Science Fiction." -- David Brin
"Star Dragon is superb fare, charity readers a alloy of tough scholarship and grand adventure." -- Locus Magazine
"Star Dragon is steeped in cosmology, a production of interstellar travel, exobiology, synthetic intelligence, bioscience. Brotherton, author of many systematic articles in refereed journals, has created a dramatic, provocative, definitely convincing tough scholarship sf novel that includes an mocking turn that fans will love." -- Sally Estes, Booklist starred review
"Readers inspired for a thought-provoking extrapolation and severe technical fact of out-of-date tough SF are certain to suffer astronomer Brotherton's initial novel." -- Publishers Weekly
"Mike Brotherton, himself a lerned astrophysicist, combines a technical acuity and skill of Robert Forward with a ironic, postmodern position and character of M. John Harrison. In this, his entrance novel, those twin talents combine to furnish a work that is involving on any series of levels. It's only about all we could ask for in a hardcore SF adventure." -- Paul di Fillippo, SCI-FI.COM
Mike Brotherton is a author of a well-received tough scholarship novella novels Star Dragon and Spider Star and editor of a anthology Diamonds in a Sky. He is also an astronomy highbrow during a University of Wyoming specializing in observational studies of quasars and other active galaxies. He's a connoisseur of Clarion West and owner of a Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers. He blogs during www.mikebrotherton.com.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #244746 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-02-06
- Released on: 2012-02-06
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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