There are rules and regulations that suppress all knowledge of the long-gone Divinities, and there are those who chafe under such laws. When the Divinities were killed (or fled), they took with them all their protections and miracles, leaving the chosen people bereft and floundering in their absence and the small, militaristic island nation of Saypur (the victors in the war) as the new colonial power. And then they used it.Ĭity of Stairs begins a generation later - in a Bulikov that has been reduced to abject poverty and dependence. And this went on for a very long time, until one of those oppressed nations figured out a way to do the impossible (or at least the highly improbable): They discovered a weapon that could kill a god. With a direct hotline to the miraculous, the Continent ruled the world - oppressing all others whom the Divinities had ignored. Bulikov, center of Continental government, was once the most prosperous and powerful city in the world. This is the setup for Robert Jackson Bennett's newest book, City of Stairs. Particularly when the dead gods in question might not in fact be, you know, actually dead.
No one is even allowed to know the history of the Divinities who once walked among the people, performing miracles left and right, though scrubbing the memory of such things from a city, a continent and a people is not quite as easy as passing laws that make the dead gods verboten. No one can display their signs or symbols. On the Continent, no one is allowed to talk about their gods. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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