The January Dancer

The January Dancer - Paperback

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The January Dancer

The January Dancer - Paperback

by Michael Flynn
$18.99
Sale price  $18.99 Regular price 

Book Overview

by Michael Flynn (Author)

A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!

Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it.

Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer; pirates take it, rulers crave it, and they'll all kill if necessary to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.

Author Biography

Michael Flynn lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 0.96 x 7 x 4.25 IN
Publication Date: June 28, 2011
ISBN9781250208965
Author Michael Flynn
PublisherTor Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages352
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn was known for hisexceptional writing style and the ability to write extremely well drawn-outcharacters against a background of hard science fiction narratives. Flynn's writing style is further characterized by hisapplication of the rigor of his own scientific background to "softer" sciencessuch as sociology, which is evident in works such as In the Country ofthe Blind and the Hugo nominated Eifelheim . Nearly all of Flynn's work falls under the category of hardscience fiction, and he is recognized as one of the most sophisticated andstylistically acute writers in this genre. His treatment of character-basednarratives is complex and nuanced, as seen in many of his critically acclaimedworks. Nearly all of Flynn's works have been extremely well receivedby critics and includes several award-winning works such as In theCountry of the Blind, Fallen Angels, and Eifelheim.He was also the first winner of the Robert A. Heinlein Medal. Flynn passed awayon September 30, 2023, at his childhood home in Pennsylvania.

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