Each an acclaimed writer in his own best, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have collaborated on some of the biggest bestsellers in research fiction history, like the #1 New York Situations bestseller Footfall. Here Niven and Pournelle have mixed their award-winning skills and imaginations to produce a masterpiece of epic fantasy that rivals the functions of Robert Jordan and David Eddings.

Occur the world of Larry Niven’s popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports listeners for an about The Burning City enchanted ancient town bearing a provocative resemblance to your own society. There, Yangin-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fireplace, alternately protects and destroys the city’s denizens. In Tep’s City, nothing can burn indoors, no fire can start-except when the Burning comes upon the town. At that time the people, possessed by Yangin-Atep, established their own town ablaze in a riotous orgy of devastation that frequently comes without warning.

Whandall Placehold has lived using the Burning up all his existence. Fighting his method to adulthood in the suggest but magical streets of the city’s most blighted neighborhoods, Whandall dreams of escaping the god’s wrath to find a brand-new and better life. But his best hope for freedom may lie with Morth of Atlantis-the enigmatic sorcerer who wiped out his father.

Both gritty and exotic, The Burning City is a fantasy tale unlike any you have read before.