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The January Dancer
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Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning sci-fi writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics,
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.
"Flynn puts his world-building skills to good use, creating a context that begs to be further explored." —
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tony zecco
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“This book reeks of trying too hard. The author's style is florid and honestly not worth the trouble of trying to parse out. Seemed like it was trying to have enough style to overlook the cliches and sometimes frankly sexist undertones. Hell, the beginning of the book has a nice little sexist passage about how men can love anything, yet women can only love one thing. I had trouble believing I was reading something that was written this century. I had a bad feeling from the beginning when I opened the book and saw two completely made up time systems that made no sense, compared to Earth standard. Hard pass.”
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