
- 351 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The January Dancer
About this book
"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
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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Contents
- AN BROLLACH
- GEANTRAÍ: SAND AND IRON
- AN CRAIC
- GOLTRAÍ: WEARING OUT THE GREEN
- AN CRAIC
- SUANTRAÍ: BREAKING ON THE PERIPHERAL SHORE
- AN CRAIC
- GEANTRAÍ: BREAD AND SALT
- AN CRAIC
- SUANTRAÍ: DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE OF NIGHT
- AN CRAIC
- GOLTRAÍ: SHIPS PASSING IN THE LIGHT
- AN CRAIC
- GEANTRAÍ: THE STERN CHASE
- AN CRAIC
- SUANTRAÍ: DOG DAYS
- AN CRAIC
- GOLTRAÍ: THE LEAVING THAT’S GRIEVING
- AN CRAIC
- GEANTRAÍ: FACE OFF
- AN CRAIC
- SUANTRAÍ: THE SPEED OF SPACE
- AN CRAIC
- GOLTRAÍ: DOWN THE RABID WHOLE
- AN CRAIC
- AN SOS
- GEANTRAÍ: THE CALL OF DOOTY
- AN CRAIC
- SUANTRAÍ: GRASS PYJAMAS
- AN CRAIC
- GOLTRAÍ: HOWLING, IN THE WILDERNESS
- AN CRAIC
- GEANTRAÍ: THIS TOO IS A HOME
- AN IARFHOCAL
- Also by Michael Flynn
- Copyright
- Preview Page
- Excerpt Page