The January Dancer

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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. "

About the Author :
Michael Flynn lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Review :
""Composed with structural brilliance, invested with authentic human feeling, and redolent not only of its SF precursors but of archetypal myths that echo timelessly through life and art, "The January Dancer" is a masterpiece." ""Flavored like Celtic poetry, "The January Dancer" is the first effort in what promises to be a space opera of epic proportions. . . . will leave readers both wide-eyed and breathless." ""This story weaves love, mystery, music, action, and a change to create a mammoth of a read that will leave readers enraptured in its pages for generations to come." Flynn implants the style of medieval storytelling into an old-fashioned space opera. Praise for "Eifelheim" "Carl Sagan meets Umberto Eco.... Bursting with pungent historical detail and Big Theme musings, this dense, provocative novel offers big rewards to patient readers." --"Entertainment Weekly ""Heartbreaking. Flynn masterfully achieves an intricate panorama of medieval life, full of fascinatingly realized human and Krenken characters whose fates interconnect with poignant irony." "--Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Wonderful, mesmerizing. A finely written and deeply considered SF novel that deserves to stand with the classics in the field." --Robert Charles Wilson, Award-Winning Author of "Spin" Praise for "Eifelheim" "Carl Sagan meets Umberto Eco.... Bursting with pungent historical detail and Big Theme musings, this dense, provocative novel offers big rewards to patient readers." --"Entertainment Weekly ""Heartbreaking. Flynn masterfully achieves an intricate panorama of medieval life, full of fascinatingly realized human and Krenken characters whose fates interconnect with poignant irony." "--Publishers Weekly" (starred review) "Wonderful, mesmerizing. A finely written and deeply considered SF novel that deserves to stand with the classics in the field." --Robert Charles Wilson, Award-Winning Author of "Spin" "Flynn implants the style of medieval storytelling into an old-fashioned space opera." --"The Washington Post Book World ""This story weaves love, mystery, music, action, and a change to create a mammoth of a read that will leave readers enraptured in its pages for generations to come." "--Sacramento Book Review ""Flavored like Celtic poetry, "The January Dancer" is the first effort in what promises to be a space opera of epic proportions. . . . will leave readers both wide-eyed and breathless." "--Starlog ""Composed with structural brilliance, invested with authentic human feeling, and redolent not only of its SF precursors but of archetypal myths that echo timelessly through life and art, "The January Dancer" is a masterpiece." "--Locus" Flynn implants the style of medieval storytelling into an old-fashioned space opera. "The Washington Post Book World" This story weaves love, mystery, music, action, and a change to create a mammoth of a read that will leave readers enraptured in its pages for generations to come. "Sacramento Book Review" Flavored like Celtic poetry, "The January Dancer" is the first effort in what promises to be a space opera of epic proportions . Will leave readers both wide-eyed and breathless. "Interzone" Composed with structural brilliance, invested with authentic human feeling, and redolent not only of its SF precursors but of archetypal myths that echo timelessly through life and art, "The January Dancer" is a masterpiece. "Locus"" Flynn implants the style of medieval storytelling into an old-fashioned space opera. The Washington Post Book World This story weaves love, mystery, music, action, and a change to create a mammoth of a read that will leave readers enraptured in its pages for generations to come. Sacramento Book Review Flavored like Celtic poetry, The January Dancer is the first effort in what promises to be a space opera of epic proportions . Will leave readers both wide-eyed and breathless. Interzone Composed with structural brilliance, invested with authentic human feeling, and redolent not only of its SF precursors but of archetypal myths that echo timelessly through life and art, The January Dancer is a masterpiece. Locus "