From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Mon Dec 26 2005 - 10:01:03 PST
"...my 'Kasko gave to me...":
Mike Brotherton
Star Dragon
Published by Tor, USA 2003
Hard SF of a quality I haven't seen in ages, by a young astrophysicist
and SF writer:
"The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe
AI, but only a few minutes mattered--the four minutes that showed a
creature made of fire, living , moving, dancing in the plasma fire of
the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien
that only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it, could
truly understand it. It's a perilous journey into the future, however,
for SS Cygni is 245 light-years from Earth, and even though only two
years subjective time will pass on board the Karamojo, the crew will
return to an Earth where five hundred years have passed."
Released under Creative Commons License by the author 2004 and
available in these formats: RTF, Text, PDF, HTML, MobiPocket PRC from
his website http://www.mikebrotherton.com/novels/index.html . And now
we have the Newton eBook edition available for all Newton formats from
http://www.stillnewt.org/library/_Fiction/_Fantastic%20Literature/
_scifi/Brotherton,%20Mike%20-%20Star%20Dragon%20(2003)/ .
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