Larry Niven

The Burning City Larry Niven

In the city of the volatile god of fire, Yangin-Atep, nothing can burn indoors and no fire can start—except when the Burning comes. Then the townspeople, possessed by Yangin-Atep, set the town ablaze in a riotous orgy of destruction. Whandall Place hold dreams of a better life, but his best hope for freedom may lie with the sorcerer who killed his father.