Brotherton, Mike
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1968- ) US astronomer and author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Jack in the Box" in Talebones for Fall 1995. His first novel Star Dragon (2003) is a Hard SF Space Opera focused on the discovery that a dragon-shaped Alien being is composed of star matter; explorations in Xenobiology form the heart of the tale. His second novel Spider Star (2008) not dissimilarly centres on the exploration of a distant planet where an Alien Weapon has been accidentally activated, threatening widespread annihilation. His anthologies (for titles see below) tend to reprint fictions that explore issues within a scientific frame. [JC]
Michael Sean Brotherton
born Granite City, Illinois: 26 March 1968
works
- Star Dragon (New York: Tor, 2003) [hb/Stephan Martinière]
- Spider Star (New York: Tor, 2008) [hb/Daniel Dociu]
works as editor
- Diamonds in the Sky: An Original Anthology of Astronomy Science Fiction (no place given: National Science Foundation, 2009) [anth: ebook: Astronomy: na/]
- Launch Pad (Monument, Colorado: WordFire Press, 2014) with Jody Lynn Nye [anth: pb/]
- Science Fiction by Scientists (Springer, 2016) as Michael Brotheron [anth: pb/Tithi Luadthong]
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