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IN THE COURTS OF THE SUN
By: Brian D'Amato
Dutton
April 2009
On Sale: March 26, 2009
Featuring: Jed DeLanda
656 pages
ISBN: 0525950516
EAN: 9780525950516
Hardcover
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A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leading up to December 21, 2012βthe day the Maya predicted the world would end
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 Go against his computer and raking in profits from online trading. (His secret weapon? A Mayan divination gameβonce used for predicting corn-harvest cycles, now proving very useful in predicting corn futuresβthat his mother taught him.) But Jedβs life is thrown into chaos when his former mentor, the game theorist Taro, and a mysterious woman named Marena Park, invite him to give his opinion on a newly discovered Mayan codex.
Marena and Taro are looking for a volunteer to travel back to 664 AD to learn more about a βsacrifice gameβ described in the codex. Jed leaps at the chance, and soon scientists are replicating his brain waves and sending them through a wormhole, straight into the mind of a Mayan kingβ¦
Only something goes wrong. Instead of becoming a king, Jed arrives inside a ballplayer named Chacal who is seconds away from throwing himself down the temple steps as a human sacrifice. If Jed can live through the next few minutes, he might just save the world.
Bringing to mind Neal Stephensonβs Cryptonomicon and Gary Jenningsβs Aztec, yet entirely unique, In the Courts of the Sun takes you from the distant past to the near future in a brilliant kaleidoscope of ideas.
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