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The Burning City is a fantasy novel of social and political allegory by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
- Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven
- 2000
Jan 1, 2001 · Set in the world of Larry Niven's popular The Magic Goes Away, The Burning City transports readers to an enchanted ancient city bearing a provocative resemblance to our own modern society. Here Yagen-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fire, alternately protects and destroys the city's denizens.
- (970)
- Mass Market Paperback
- The Centralia, Pennsylvania Fire Starts in A Landfill
- The Fire Spreads Through Miles of Coal Mines
- Trying — and Failing — to Put Out The Centralia, PA Fire
- Why Some Residents Have Fought to Stay in This Pennsylvania Ghost Town
- The Legacy of Centralia
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In May of 1962, the town council of Centralia, Pennsylvania met to discuss the new landfill. Earlier in the year, Centralia had built a 50-foot-deep pit that covered an area about half the size of a football field to deal with the town’s problem with illegal dumping. However, the landfill was getting full and neededclearing before the town’s annual...
At the bottom of Centralia’s trash pit, next to the north wall, was a hole 15-feet wide and several feet deep. Waste had concealed the gap. As a result, it had not been filled with fire-retardant material. And the hole provided a direct pathwayto the labyrinth of old coal mines over which Centralia was built. Soon, residents began complaining of fo...
The commonwealth of Pennsylvania tried to stop the spreading of the Centralia fire several times, but all attempts were unsuccessful. The first project involved excavating beneath Centralia. Pennsylvania authorities planned to dig out the trenches to expose the flames so they could extinguish them. However, the plan’s architects underestimated the ...
Twenty years after the fire started, however, Centralia, Pennsylvania began to feel the effects of its eternal flame underground. Residents started passing out in their homes from carbon monoxide poisoning. The trees began to die, and the ground turned to ash. Roads and sidewalks began to buckle. The real turning point came on Valentine’s Day in 19...
Fewer than five people still live in Centralia. Experts estimate there is enough coal underneath Centralia to fuel the fire for another 250 years. But the story and infrastructure of the town has provided its own kind of fuel for creative endeavors. The real Silent Hilltown that inspired the 2006 horror film is this abandoned Pennsylvania town. Tho...
Centralia, Pennsylvania was a coal mining town that became a ghost town after a fire started in a landfill in 1962 and spread to the underground mines. The fire still burns today, causing environmental and health hazards, and only six homes remain occupied by the final holdouts.
Here Yagen-Atep, the volatile and voracious god of fire, holds sway, alternately protecting and destroying the city's denizens. In Tep's Town, nothing can burn indoors and no fire can start: by...
Jan 1, 2004 · Burning City is a well-written book about one boy's struggle to reach for his goals, no matter them be near or far. The story moves fast, just like Heller on his bike, and the dialog is quick and witty.
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- Paperback
Jan 5, 2017 · India: The Burning City. We investigate how an underground fire that has been burning for 100 years has led to one of India’s largest land grabs.
Fighting his way to adulthood in the mean-but-magical streets of the city's most blighted neighborhoods, Whandall dreams of escaping the god's wrath to find a new...
