Name: The January Dancer
Rating: 3.333333333333333 (3 reviews)
ISBN: 9780765357793

Michael Flynn

Captain Amos January and his rivals struggle to obtain an ancient pre-human artifact of great power that incites murderous actions in those who seek it.

The January Dancer

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.

Jolie

This book was a struggle for me to get through. Mainly because I had problems following the plot (which almost never happens) and the switching from present to past really confused me (even though it was in different font). It was written beautifully and the author did give a lot of detail to the characters. Like I said above, personally it was a struggle for me to get through. Will I read it again....maybe.

The January Dancer

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