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It’s 2012, the year the Mayan calendar predicts the world will end. Math prodigy Jed DeLanda—a Mayan descendant—spends his time raking in online trading profits using a divination game passed down from his ancestors. But Jed’s life is thrown into chaos when his former mentor, the game theorist Taro, and the mysterious Marena Park, invite him to give his opinion of 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 the Lord of Ix, 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 prevent the coming apocalypse.

As masterfully original as Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, with a vivid depiction of a lost civilization, Brian D’Amato’s In the Courts of the Sun takes you from the distant past to the near future in a brilliant kaleidoscope of ideas.