Thoughts on Brown Dwarfs, Science Fiction and New Telescopes

Here’s an interesting notion, courtesy of science fiction writer Jack McDevitt. Jack’s story “Lighthouse” (available in Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt (Subterranean Press, 2009) posits an apparently normal brown dwarf that, upon closer study, turns out to be deeply anomalous, in ways that seem designed to call attention to it. There appears […]