The January Dancer by Michael Flynn review
Michael Flynn is one of the more unusual figures in modern SF, and especially in technically rigorous science fiction, delving into areas seldom touched by other writers: Taking a “hard” science approach to social science in In the Country of the Blind, combining nuts-and-bolts hard science fiction with emotionally charged, character-driven tragedy in The Wreck of the River of Stars, and setting a First Contact story in 14th-century Germany in Eifelheim. With The January Dancer, Flynn turns his talents to far-future space opera.
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