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Each an acclaimed creator in his own right, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have collaborated on a few of the largest bestsellers in research fiction history, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Footfall. Here Niven and Pournelle have mixed their award-winning skills and imaginations to make a masterpiece of epic illusion that rivals the works of Robert Jordan and David Eddings. Occur the world of Larry Niven's popular The Magic Comes Away, The Getting rid of City transports listeners to the enchanted and early city bearing a provocative resemblance to your own society. There, Yangin-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fireplace, alternately defends and destroys the city's denizens. In Tep's Town, nothing at all can burn up indoors, and no fire can begin - except when the Getting rid of comes upon this town. At that time 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 Getting rid of all his life. Struggling his way to adulthood in the mean but enchanting 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 rest with Morth of Atlantis - the enigmatic sorcerer who killed his father. Both gritty and spectacular, The Getting rid of City is a illusion story unlike any you have been told before.
