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The Descent of Anansi

Larry Niven, Steven Barnes

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#7066 of 8,085 books · #1566 in Fantasy

Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1983).

Set in the world of Larry Niven's popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports readers to an enchanted ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society. Here Yagen-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fire, alternately protects and destroys the city's denizens. In Tep's Town, nothing can burn indoors and no fire can start -- except when the Burning comes upon the city. Then the people, possessed by Yagen-Atep, set their own town ablaze in a riotous orgy of destruction that often comes without warning. Whandall Placehold has lived with the Burning all his life. Fighting his way to adulthood in the mean-but-magical streets of the city's most blighted neighborhoods, Whandall dreams of escaping the god's wrath to find a new and better life. But his best hope for freedom may lie with Morth of Atlantis, the enigmatic sorcerer who killed his father!

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
ISBN-13
9781439120187
Topics
Coming of ageMagic and godsSurvival in a destructive society

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