Mike Brotherton
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| Born | Michael Sean Brotherton March 26, 1968 Granite City, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | John Burroughs School Rice University (BS) University of Texas at Austin (PhD) |
| Genre | Hard science fiction |
Michael Sean Brotherton (born March 26, 1968) is an American science fiction writer and astronomer. He began writing in 1980.
Biography
Born Michael Sean Brotherton in
Robert Becker on the Very Large Array's FIRST survey related projects. From 1999-2002, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and FUSE Science Team Associate working with Richard Green in Tucson, Arizona. He is currently a tenured professor of astronomy at the University of Wyoming at Laramie
, where he has been since 2002.
Work
Brotherton writes
hard science-fiction
stories. Combining his interest in science fiction writing and astronomy, he founded the NASA-funded Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers, which brings a dozen award-winning professional writers to Wyoming every summer. His primary goal with this program is to teach writers, editors, and those with audiences of all types about modern science, specifically astronomy, and in turn reach their audiences.
Fiction
- Star Dragon (2003)
- Spider Star (2008)
- Diamonds in the Sky (2009)
Short fiction
- "Jack in the Box" (1995)
- "Rusted Roots" (1996)
- "Pearl" (1997)
- "The Point" (2009)
- "The Pack and the Pickup Artist" (2010)
- "Science Fiction by Scientists" (Editor, 2017)
Research
Brotherton's specialty is studying
phenomenology
to be explored for an entire active galactic nuclei population, as well as individual objects of special interest that may reveal important physics because of their extreme nature.
External links
- Mike Brotherton as a science-fiction writer
- Mike Brotherton as an astronomer
- The Launch Pad workshop
- Mike Brotherton at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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