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Title details for The January Dancer by Michael Flynn - Available

The January Dancer

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by Michael Flynn
Stefan Rudnicki
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Author Michael Flynnis a Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning science-fiction writer. He has here written a space opera with stunningly successful results. The January Dancertells the fateful story of an ancient prehuman artifact of great power and of 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 that the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer, pirates take it, rulers crave it, and all will 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.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Spiral Arm

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 14, 2008

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781483057545
      • File size: 374567 KB
      • Duration: 13:00:20

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Text Difficulty: 8-12

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This production is a challenge to listen to with its foreign names, places, and technology. However, with Stephan Rudnicki's deep, lively voice masterfully delivering the narrative, the story comes alive and keeps the listener engaged throughout. The interwoven narrative brings together a wide cast of characters throughout the universe--all in pursuit of an ancient artifact discovered by Captain January and his crew on a distant planet. It's believed to be a powerful tool, but figuring out how to use it is the problem. Rudnicki does well with the layered storytelling and carries listeners along as the narrative shifts from one character's perspective to another. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from August 4, 2008
      Acclaimed SF writer Flynn (Eifelheim)
      delivers an epic tale of adventure, intrigue, suspense and mystery. Forced to land for repairs on an unnamed, remote planet, Captain Amos January and crew discover a cache of artifacts left by a cryptic alien race “long before humans went to space.” They soon retrieve the Dancer, a shape-changing stone that defies analysis. Possibly the scepter of a legendary prehuman king, certainly unique, the priceless trophy is desired by diverse governments, military powers, plutocrats and cabals throughout human-settled space. Flynn knits a richly detailed story of hunters, bandits and patriots that will keep even the most diligent readers on their toes. The plot evokes old-school space opera with its whirlwind pace, immense scope and twist ending, but cutting-edge extrapolation breathes vivid life into this universe of scoundrels, heroes and romantics. This multi-layered story demands much of the reader, but offers more than equivalent rewards.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Text Difficulty:8-12

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