The Burning City
 

The Burning City

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

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... (read more)

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WriterDan
  • Rated 2 stars

This is really a milieu piece, and I'm not big into stories like that. I tend to like things that are more character-related. Writing is decent, but the story just plodded along doing not much of anything at all that was interesting to me.

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