Michael Flynn

Fallen Angels

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Michael Flynn

• 1992 Prometheus winner
• Score: 10.42

One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they’d been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.

That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice…

In the Country of the Blind

Michael Flynn

• 1991 Prometheus winner
• Score: 10.41

Set primarily in the present, with tantalizing flashbacks to the 1800s, In the Country of the Blind concerns a small group of American idealists who manage to actually build the Analytical Engine designed by Charles Babbage and use it to develop mathematical models that could chart the likely course of the future. When their calculations predicted a united Germany armed with unimaginably powerful bombs by 1939, the Charles Babbage Society kept it from ever happening. Soon they were working to alter history’s course to their own liking in other ways. By the…

Eifelheim

Michael Flynn

• 2007 Hugo-Novel nominee
• Score: 6.57

In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a contemporary historian, becomes obsessed—what was so special about Eifelheim that it utterly disappeared more than 600 years ago?

Father Deitrich is the village priest of Eifelheim in the year 1348 when the Black Death is gathering strength across Europe. Deitrich is an educated man, knows science and philosophy, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest. It is a time of wonders in the shadow of the plague.

Falling Stars: Book 4 of Firestar Saga

Michael Flynn

• 2002 Prometheus finalist
• Score: 6.52

Michael Flynn’s epic of the near future, begun in Firestar and advanced in Rogue Star and Lodestar, climaxes with Falling Stars. In the early years of the 21st century humanity has advanced into space, but has discovered that certain asteroids have changed their orbits and are headed for horrifying impact with Earth. But there is a world financial crash, and politics get in the way of progress, requiring the cast of characters introduced in the earlier books to pull together and save humanity from disaster. With great difficulty, serious preparations begin to…

Lodestar: Book 3 of Firestar Saga

Michael Flynn

• 2001 Prometheus finalist
• Score: 6.51

In the early years of the twenty-first century, humanity has progressed into space, having established a permanent presence with LEO (Low Earth Orbit) Station. Science and commerce in space are booming and humanity’s future looks bright. But one man’s desire for vindication and revenge could end it all.

Lodestar chronicles the complex conflicts-political, personal, and scientific-on Earth and in orbit, that must be resolved if humanity is to claim its destiny among the stars.

Rogue Star: Book 2 of Firestar Saga

Michael Flynn

• 1999 Prometheus finalist
• Score: 6.49

It is the early twenty-first century. There’s a space station being built, and the first manned flight to the asteroids is in progress. The grand plan of Mariesa Van Huyten to give humanity a big push back into space, and in the process save the human race from terrible disaster, continues. And there are enemies who will kill to stop it.

Firestar: Book 1 of Firestar Saga

Michael Flynn

• 1997 Prometheus finalist
• Score: 6.47

It is the dawn of the twenty-first century, and America is in trouble. Our public schools breed apathy and ignorance. Politics has become the art of the quick fix. But one woman has the vision and money to leverage change. Mariesa Gorley van Huyten, heiress to one of the great American fortunes, founds an educational subsidiary—Mentor Academies—and begins to subcontract public school systems in order to raise a new, less cynical generation. But her clandestine program is much larger, including the founding of a private space program, the eventual construction of…

Firestar Saga series

Michael Flynn

Firestar is a chronicle of private enterprise and individual initiative, the story of one woman's quest that becomes the focus for a whole new world of the future. This is a saga of hard-won optimism, about a technological future where things are better for everyone.