The January Dancer, Michael Flynn
The January Dancer, Michael Flynn
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The January Dancer

Author: Michael Flynn

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 13 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/14/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Michael Flynn, Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Awardwinning sciencefiction writer, has here written a space opera with stunningly successful results. The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient prehuman artifact of great power and of 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 that the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer, pirates take it, rulers crave it, and all will 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.

About Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn is a science fiction writer with over a dozen books to his name. He is best known for his four-book Firestar series, the critically acclaimed The Wreck of the River of Stars, and the Hugo Award–nominated Eifelheim. A mainstay of Analog SF, Michael's stories have also appeared in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Weird Tales, and other venues. He has won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for his work. He lives in Easton, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Margie.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley

I don't know about this one. I mean, it feels pretty awesome on so many levels, and yet the characters kinda fell a bit flat for me. I totally recommend this novel for the wild and weird adventure of the Immovable Force, aka the Dancer as it bends the wills and minds of entire civilizations, the worl......more

Goodreads review by Khalid

Amazing world-building; vast and intricate. This is a space opera that reads like fantasy in it's scope and tone, reminiscent of all my old favorite classics. It contains great writing and plot, an awesome and fully realized characters with nary a stray or boring paragraph (and that's saying a lot con......more

Goodreads review by Terence

I'm torn between giving this 3 or 4 stars (for the moment, I've settled on 3). It's definitely more than 3 but I want a few more days to pass while I digest the book because I've read a few lackluster efforts recently and I want to be sure I'm just not overcompensating for finally finding something......more

Goodreads review by Terry

High 3.5 stars _The January Dancer_ is a very good space opera…I wish it had tipped over into great. There is a lot going on here to love: a sufficiently deep future history created through the liberal use of allusion that references any number of existing earth cultures (heavily relying on Celtic an......more

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