In the courts of the sun

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DECEMBER 21, 2012— THE DAY TIME STOPS
Jed DeLanda, a descendant of the Maya living in the year 2012, is a math prodigy who spends his time playing abstract strategy games on his computer and raking in profits from online trading. His secret weapon is something called the "Sacrifice Game"—a divination ritual that the ancient Maya used to predict the birth and death of civilizations. But Jed's Ufe is throvm into chaos when his former mentor, the game-theory scientist Taro Mora, and a mysterious game designer named Marena Park, ask him for his opinion on a newly discovered Mayan codex—an ancient book that contains an account of a Game predicting the end of the world.
For thousands of years the fate of mankind has been etched into the fabric of history, and not even the greatest advancements in modern science and technology have been able to thwart it. Now at the brink of the end of time, Marena and Taro need someone to travel back to AD 664, to learn to play the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Can. $37.50
DECEMBER 21, 2012— THE DAY TIME STOPS
Jed DeLanda, a descendant of the Maya living in the year 2012, is a math prodigy who spends his time playing abstract strategy games on his computer and raking in profits from online trading. His secret weapon is something called the "Sacrifice Game"—a divination ritual that the ancient Maya used to predict the birth and death of civilizations. But Jed's Ufe is throvm into chaos when his former mentor, the game-theory scientist Taro Mora, and a mysterious game designer named Marena Park, ask him for his opinion on a newly discovered Mayan codex—an ancient book that contains an account of a Game predicting the end of the world.
For thousands of years the fate of mankind has been etched into the fabric of history, and not even the greatest advancements in modern science and technology have been able to thwart it. Now at the brink of the end of time, Marena and Taro need someone to travel back to AD 664, to learn to play the original version of the Sacrifice Game, and Jed, who has spent his whole life hungering to retrieve his lost heritage, convinces them that he should be the one to go. With the future of humanity in his hands, the scientists replicate Jed's brainwaves and send them through a "desktop wormhole" straight into the mind of a Mayan king Only something goes wrong. Instead of becoming the Lord of the ancient Maya city of Ix, Jed arrives inside a Maya ballplayer named Chacal, who is seconds away from throwing himself dovra the temple steps as a human sacrifice. If Jed can survive the next few minutes, he might just save the world.
Traveling from 2012 to 664, from the fall of the temples of Disney World to the peaks of the tallest towers of the ancient world, In the Courts of the Sun is a rare and spellbinding glimpse into history's most fascinating and misunderstood civilization and a breathtaking odyssey from the distant past to the near future and beyond. It is a masterful feat of the imagination and a novel of epic scope and achievement that will join the ranks of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths, and Gary Jennings's Aztec.
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BRIAN D'AMATO's paintings, sculptures, and installations have been shown in galleries and museums around the world, including the Whitney Museum, the Wexner Center for Contemporary Art, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1992 he co-organized, at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York, the first gallery show to explore the then-new medium of "virtual reahty." His first novel, Beauty, was a bestseller. He can usually be found either in New York City, Michigan, or Chicago.
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Jacket design by Richard Hasselberger Mayan scene illustrated by Gene Mollica Front jacket clock image and back jacket game and glyph images supplied by Brian D'Amato Author portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
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