Mike Brotherton
Star Dragon
Published by Tor,
USA 2003

Hard SF of a quality I haven't seen in ages, by 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 .

Newton eBook edition by DJ Vollkasko, Germany 2005.