January Dancer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250208965)

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: Michael Flynn
ISBN-10: 1250208963
ISBN-13: 9781250208965
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2011
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.96d