16½ Hours • Unabridged READ by TOM WEINER The

READ BY TOM WEINER The Golden Road Series, Book I Set in the world of Larry Niven’s The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports listeners to an enchanted ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society. There, Yangin-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 comes upon the city. At that time the people, possessed by Yangin-Atep, set their own town ablaze in a riotous orgy of destruction that often comes without warning. Whandall Placehold has lived with the Burning all his life. Fighting his way to adulthood in the mean but magical streets of the city’s most blighted neighborhoods, Whandall dreams of escaping the god’s wrath to find a new and better life. But his best hope for freedom may lie with Morth of Atlantis—the enigmatic sorcerer who killed his father. “Niven and Pournelle are in fine form.”—Locus “The Burning City is a lively book that deftly integrates social concerns of today with the magic and mythology of yesterday.” —Amazon.com, editorial review LARRY NIVEN is the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Ringworld series, as well as many other science fiction masterpieces. HisFootfall , coauthored with Jerry Pournelle, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California. JERRY POURNELLE is the author of the popular Janissaries and CoDominium series and the coauthor of several bestselling science fiction novels, includingLucifer’s Hammer, The Mote in God’s Eye, and the New York Times bestseller Footfall. He has advanced degrees in engineering, political science, statistics, and psychology and, in addition to his career as a fiction writer, has for many years written columns on both politics and technology.

Running Time: 16½ Hours • Unabridged