The January Dancer by Michael Flynn – Interview

The January Dancer by Michael Flynn

SF author Michael Flynn told SCI FI Wire that his new novel, The January Dancer, was inspired by the look and feel of Frank Herbert’s classic Dune.

“I wrote this book when I was a teenager,” Flynn said in an interview. “I had just read [Dune] in Analog and thought I would take a stab at an ‘Irish’ universe. Of course, I didn’t know how to write back then, but my mother saved the [manuscript], and recently, while pondering possible books, I looked at it and thought there were possibilities. The basic idea–a bunch of different people trying to gain possession of a valuable artifact–and the names of some of the characters and planets survived, but not much else.”

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