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<div>A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!<br><br>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, <i>The January Dancer</i> tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it. <br><br>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.<br><br></div>
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Everything in the universe is older than it seems. Blame Einstein for that. We see what a thing was when the light left it, and that was lon...more...]]>
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But the story telling style of Flynn is not fast and eas...more...]]>
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I like writing that, but it's even more fun to say. Space opera with the emphasis on the operatic, with prose so purpled that I occasionally reached to twirl my non-existent moustache, settings so divergently and baroquely imagined as to suggest a good thirty or forty nov...more...]]>
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Written in a Celtic-laden language which gives it an archaic feel that complements its far future, space opera set...more...]]>
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Quote from the beginning of the story (p 19) "But images are light, and light is energy, and energy is matter; and matter is real. So image and reality ...more...]]>
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Regardless, enjoyable read.]]>
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