Mikebrotherton.com

Mike Brotherton. Science and Science Fiction

Today's Mikebrotherton.com headlines: Observe fresh posts and updates on Mike Brotherton. This site’s feed is stale or rarely updated (or it might be broken for a reason), but you may check related news or Mikebrotherton.com popular pages instead. It is generally safe for browsing, so you may click any item to proceed to the site.

News, stories and media buzz related to Mike Brotherton

Subscribe to related news

Cult-Movie Review: Interstellar (2014)
via reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) is one of those outer space movies in which human astronauts travel to the end of the universe -- and existence itself -- but are confronted not with incredible alien life, but rather with themselves; with the...
Interstellar Sucks Harder Than Its Black Hole
via archive.techtree

Sci-fi is the most challenging genre for film-makers. After completing Sunshine (2007), British Director, Danny Boyle stated that working on Sci Fi movies is so spiritually exhaustive that he won't revisit this genre again. He also added that "There...
Interstellar orbits a black-hole of bad sci-fi cliches
via filmdivider

Epic science fiction is notoriously hard to get right, and the temptations of hysteria and sentimentality have sucked in even great film-makers with all the force of a black hole. For every Moon you get an Event Horizon, where characters “travel to a...
A Brief History Of (Nearly Everything I’ve Learned About) Time
via whatho

Ray Cummings, considered the father of science fiction, described time as “nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once.” John Wheeler, an American theoretical physicist, added, “And, space is its way of preventing everything from happening...
The Economic Singularity – John Mauldin
via valuewalk

The Economic Singularity Millennium Wave Advisors By John Mauldin February 15, 2014 The 2014 Strategic Investment Conference: Investing in a Transformational World Stuck in a Liquidity Trap The Economic Singularity The Minsky Moment...

Observe Mikebrotherton.com news and updates

Great News for my Friend and Student, Vikram Singh, Top Graduating Man from the University of Wyoming

Here’s the article/press release from the University. Here’s the key bit relating to Vikram’s research with me: He received an EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) grant in 2014 and started research with UW Department of Physics...
2016 Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop Participants

Long time no blog, but I usually post the participant list for Launch Pad here, and I shall continue. It’s an impressive, diverse bunch, as usually. We have novelists, short story writers, science historians, game designers, media folks, Hollywood writers...
Launch Pad 2016 Now Accepting Applications

Through March 1, we will be accepting applications for the 2016 edition of the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers. The workshop will run from June 1-7, 2016, and as usual will be held at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, WY. Share/Bookmark...
Current/Recent News

I’m streamlining the blog, as I’m not actively blogging any more. I need to focus my energies on astronomy and science fiction, and social media has largely usurped blogs from my perspective. I’ll continue to post occasional updates here as they come...
How Do I Get There (Another Star?) — Let Me Count the Ways

I am inspired today by Starship Century, a symposium at UCSD May 21-22, involving Gregory Benford, David Brin, Geoffrey Landis, Joe Haldeman, Neal Stephenson, Alan Steele, etc., almost everyone you might think of from the science fiction side, and a...

Mikebrotherton.com popular pages

Science Fiction Food and Drink

Inspired by this list of the scariest foods (many of which I've eaten, including balot and rocky mountain oysters), I was thinking about scary science fiction foods like those live worms that the Klin...
Mike Brotherton: SF Writer

Science and Science Fiction

Smart Pop Books

Spider Star 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 wea...