In the Courts of the Sun Hardback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by D'Amato, Brian

A mind-bending, time-bending, zeitgeist-defining novel about the days leadingup 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 prodigywho spends his time playing Go against his computer and raking in profitsfrom online trading. (His secret weapon? A Mayan divination game once usedfor predicting corn-harvest cycles, now proving very useful in predicting cornfutures that his mother taught him.) But Jed's life is thrown into chaos whenhis former mentor, the game theorist Taro, and a mysterious woman namedMarena 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 learnmore about a 'sacrifice game' described in the codex. Jed leaps at the chance,and soon scientists are replicating his brain waves and sending them througha wormhole, straight into the mind of a Mayan king

Only something goes wrong. Instead of becoming a king, Jed arrives inside aballplayer named Chacal who is seconds away from throwing himself downthe temple steps as a human sacrifice. If Jed can live through the next fewminutes, 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 distantpast to the near future in a brilliant kaleidoscope of ideas.