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A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leading up to December 21, 2012 - the 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 game - once used for predicting corn-harvest cycles, now proving very useful in predicting corn futures - that his mother taught him.) But Jed's 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 'sacrifice game' 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 king.
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 Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and Gary Jennings's 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.
Genre: Thriller
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 game - once used for predicting corn-harvest cycles, now proving very useful in predicting corn futures - that his mother taught him.) But Jed's 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 'sacrifice game' 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 king.
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 Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and Gary Jennings's 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.
Genre: Thriller
Used availability for Brian D'Amato's In the Courts of the Sun
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March 2009 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
November 2009 : Paperback

Title: In the Courts of the Sun
Author(s): Brian D'Amato
Publisher: Berkley Books
Availability: Amazon UK
November 2009 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
March 2021 : Audio CD
September 2009 : USA Audio edition
September 2009 : Canada Audio edition

Title: In the Courts of the Sun
Author(s): Brian D'Amato
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Availability: Amazon CA
August 2009 : USA Audio CD
August 2009 : USA Audio CD
August 2009 : USA MP3 CD
Kindle Editions
February 2009 : USA, Canada Kindle edition