Burning Tower
LC Class PS3564.I9 B873 2005 | | |
| Preceded by | The Burning City | |
|---|---|---|
| Followed by | Burning Mountain | |
Burning Tower is a
fantasy novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. It is a sequel to The Burning City
, set some years after that novel concluded. It was published in 2005.
Plot summary
The three main characters are Sandry, a Lord of Tep's Town, Sandry's cousin Regapisk, also a Lord, and Burning Tower, a daughter of Whandall, the main character of the previous
oarsman
on a coastal ship. Sandry and Burning Tower are romantically linked throughout the book.
Large flightless birds attack trading caravans, but Sandry fights them off. He is sent by the Lords with the caravan, of which Burning Tower is also a part, to discover the source of the birds. They travel to the southern city of Condigeo and then to Crescent City, defeating
terror bird attacks along the way. In Crescent City, they are joined by Regapisk, who has escaped from his ship. The three of them travel on to the high-magic city of Aztlan
, where Regapisk redeems himself.
The authors researched
Titanis walleri
(but see McFadden et al. 2007).
Sources
- McFadden, Bruce; Labs-Hochstein, Joann; Hulbert, Richard C. Jr. & Baskin, Jon A. (2007): Revised age of the late Neogene terror bird (Titanis) in North America during the Great American Interchange.
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