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Can I read The Burning City on EtoBox?
The Burning City by Jerry Pournelle & Jerry Pournelle is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Burning City about?
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!
Who reads The Burning City?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jerry Pournelle & Jerry Pournelle
- Publisher
- Beyond Words/Atria Books
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781416575085
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.43 / 5 (730 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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