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In the Courts of the Sun (utgåvan 2009)

av Brian D'Amato

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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.… (mer)
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Titel:In the Courts of the Sun
Författare:Brian D'Amato
Info:NAL Trade (2009), Paperback, 704 pages
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I was captured at page one but midway through it was just not my thing
  ebv | Aug 6, 2013 |
Der Protagonist dieses Romans ist Jed DeLanda, er stammt aus Guatemala und hat in seiner Kindheit ein mysteriöses altes Brettspiel erlernt, das von den Maya benutzt worden ist, um in die Zukunft zu blicken. Zwar beherrscht Jed dieses "Opferspiel" so gut, dass er es gewinnbringend für sich einsetzen kann, doch ist bekannt, dass die alten Maya mit dem Spiel viel weiter in mögliche Zukünfte blicken konnten. Mit dem Ende des Maya-Kalendars am 21.12.2012 sind Spekulationen über das bevorstehende Ende der Welt verknüpft. Dieses Ende könnte kosmische oder übernatürlich Gründe haben. Aber auch so genannte Doomster, Personen, die die Menschheit durch Anschläge oder Seuchen auslöschen wollen, könnten dieses Datum für sich nutzen wollen. Als sich die Anzeichen für solche Bestrebungen mehren, wird eine Kopie von Jeds Bewusstsein in die Vergangenheit geschickt, um dort die Geheimnisse des Opferspiels kennen zu lernen. Mit diesem Wissen soll es dann gelingen, die Bedrohungen im Jahr 2012 zu erkennen und ihnen entgegen zu treten. Der Roman legt großartig los. Obwohl sich die Handlung eher langsam entwickelt, hat der Text doch ein hohes Tempo. Und hohen Stil. Insbesondere die ständigen sarkastischen Kommentare des Protagonisten machen das Buch im ersten Teil zu einem großen Lesevergnügen. Leider verliert der Roman etwa in der Mitte deutlich an Qualität. Die Frische verschwindet und im antiken Mayareich werden wir beglückt mit zu viel Gewalt- und Folter-Beschreibungen. Es dauert einigen hundert quälenden Seiten bis das Buch zum Ende hin wieder richtig gut wird und zu einem grandiosen Schluss findet. Fazit: Es ist ein außergewöhnliches und unbedingt lesenswertes Buch mit einigen Schwächen und Längen in der zweiten Hälfte. ( )
  glglgl | Jun 10, 2013 |
I'm very reluctant to admit that I did not finish this book. I rarely do not finish books that I start. The premise of returning a "conciousness" back to Mayan time to try and learn the Sacrifice game in its original form, then to be use the game as a way to predict what might happen on/around Dec 21, 2012, was enough to get me interested; but I could not stay interested the farther I got into the book. Although by far not a bad book, it took too much effort for me to concentrate on. The main charcter is a savant and I have to give the author credit for writing the character as he did, but the exact characteristics that defined the main character Jed also put me off of the story. The character was hyper, distracted, sometimes disoriented, and many times his train of thought was hard to follow. I work in a technical field day in and day out, it's not usually what I choose to read for leisure. Some of the technical descriptions (physics, etc.) in the book caused the story to drag. Maybe someday I will go back to the book and pick up where I left off - I really would like to see where the story leads - just too tired to concentrate on it right now. ( )
  Lisa_Wojcik49 | Nov 29, 2012 |
To use an old expression, this book is gonna blow your mind! Take an uber hip polymath, whose probably best at playing games (Go, Chess, Video).Combine with corporate greed and an ancient Mayan game that predicts the end of the world. Solution, get more information from people who have been dead for near two millennia. Written as if the author was a columnist for a pub in Neuromancer, this is mostly compelling stuff. Only problem is he gets too overwehelmed by detail and the narrative slows. Cutting from past to present to past doesn't help sustain flow either. Huge book at 684 pages, first in a trilogy. I skimmed last two hundred pages. But you've never read a book so hip, so erutdite in Mayan ethnography that it's worth the time. ( )
  neddludd | Aug 15, 2011 |
The story of stopping the end of the world sounds incredibly exciting...and at times, this book really was. There were parts of the book that had me so sucked in I couldn't put the book down. At one point I was scared of ever going to Disney World again. But then there were parts that just dragged on and on. It took me about 4 months to get through this book, and I think that I will probably read the whole trilogy, it just may take me to the end of the world to finish it. ( )
  LeeAnn725 | Aug 8, 2010 |
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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.

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