The January Dancer (Spiral Arm Book 1)

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“An epic tale. . . . evokes old-school space opera . . . but cutting-edge extrapolation breathes vivid life into this universe of scoundrels, heroes and romantics.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

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, 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.

“Flynn puts his world-building skills to good use, creating a context that begs to be further explored.” —Booklist

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004K1ESAI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books; First edition (October 14, 2008)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 14, 2008
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3.0 MB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 351 pages

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Customers find the book engaging and entertaining. They appreciate the imaginative world-building and well-developed characters. The author’s prose is lyrical and distinct, with good characterization and different names for different parts of their lives. Readers like the writer’s writing style and find it easy to read and re-readable. However, some find the story difficult to follow and confusing, while others find the flow of the story good.

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