8. Have you read any other novel by Michael Flynn?

[Manuel]

8. If you have, can you talk about it? How does it compare with Eifelheim?

[Fonch]

I have never Read any novels but somebody wrote me very good about The Blind Country, but i do not know that This novel Will be Catholic. Eifelheim was recomended by Julie Davis. This is her best recomendation.

[Mary]

I've read his Spiral Arm trilogy. Very good.

[John]

I don't recall reading anything else by Michael Flynn.

[Fonch]

On this subject to have more information about the author, and his works copied what Miquel Barceló says in his prologue. (between quotes)

"His first novel"In the Land of the Blind" (removed references to it being published in NOVA), achieved great success and won the LOCUS and Compton Crook Awards for the best first novel of the year, in addition to the Prometheus. The work, set in the nineteenth century, presents a secret society of mathematicians who actually build the computer designed by Charles Babbage and, with the help of cliology (the statistical science of history), controls in a certain way the evolution of human history.

After the success of the"Country of the Blind",reissued in 2000, the great fame that Flynn has today among science fiction readers around the world is based, above all, on a great work of the most spectacular Heinlenian style: the series started with"Firestar" (1996),and which includes three more titles:"Rogue Star" (1998), "Lodestar" (1998), and "Falling stars" (2001). It is a great and epic saga of the near future, a new"story of the future" in the style of Heinlein.

For an editor like me (Miquel Roca is referring to himself. I am not a publisher, what else would I like :-)) and a collection like NOVA, the problem with this Series of Flynn is the monumental extension of the first book in the series: almost a thousand pages that will increase in the translation into Spanish.

That is why I have decided to show you before the narrative richness of Michael Flynn in other works of his, always remarkable and worthy of attention.

Recently it was with that surprise that was the"Shipwreck of the River of the Stars" (2003), a wonderful, interesting, and emotional adventure of the most classic space opera told in a new way.

An amazing hard science fiction novel based not so much on technology as on the characters and their complex interactions.

A change and renovated operation was essential for the classic space opera, something similar to what, for example, Sin Perdón por el Western did a little more than a decade ago: maintain the traditional interest in the adventurous aspect, but, above all, rest the value of a work in the treatment given to its characters. The old story of the losers has always played into the traditional narrative, and the twilight western was not going to be an exception. The Space Opera is not going to be either as "The Shipwreck of the River of the Stars" brilliantlydemonstrates.

While deciding whether or not I finally dared with the Spanish edition of Firestar(1996), Flynn published another novel"Eifelheim" (2006) which he now introduced to them..." pp 5-6 book by Eifelheim, Ed Edicioones B, Barcelona (Spain, 2008.

From here I write the author collects the impressions of Orson Scott Card about"Eifelheim" then goes on to say that there are some newers of the science fiction genre in which are Orson Scott Card, Lois Macmaster Bujold, Vernor Vinge, Connie Willis, Neal Stephenson, Dan Simmons, and Robert J. Swayer, and speaks wonders of Jasper Fforde and his detective Thursday Next, and he says that both Michael Flynn, and Jasper Fforde (in his field, have never disappointed him in any of his novels, all different, all suggestive and all, in my opinion, worthy of his attention.