num_pages: 350
description: A triumph of the New Space fast complicated wonder-filled!Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Awardwinning 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 theyll 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.
language: English
title: The January Dancer
publisher: Tor Books