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Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Prize-winning SF author Michael Flynn today becomes to space opera within The Jan Ballerina, with strikingly effective results. Full of wealthy echoes of the space opera classics from Document Smith to Cordwainer Smith, it informs the fateful tale of an ancient pre-individual artifact of great strength, and the folks who discovered it. Beginning with Chief Amos Jan, who rapidly drops it, and then your others who schemed, struggled, and murdered to obtain it, we travel around the complicated, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization it may conserve or ruin, following a people for it. The Dancer is wanted by collectors; it is taken by pirates; rulers desire it, and they’ll all destroy if essential to get it. This is really as fascinating a wool as any ever in the entire history of SF.