Here's some more suggestions for pre-Columbian fiction: The Daniel Peters trilogy: -The Luck of Huemac ('81) -Tikal ('83) -The Incas ('91) Desert Cities of the Heart-Lewis Shiner ('88) Revolt Against the Rain God-Edmund S. Whitman ('65) Maya Red-J. R. Humphreys ('89) (A TRULY terrible book--I do NOT recommend it!) The Bride of the Sacred Wel - Emma Lindsay Squier (1927) High Adventure - Donald Westlake ('85) (A really FUN book!) Rio Pasion - Luceno (I've been looking for this for 3 years without success-- Barbara Kerr recommended it as a good summer read) Many of these are out of print but I've picked up some at used book sales. Steve Stearns sks@itc.bellcore.com _____________________________________________________ There is a good science fiction/ fantasy by Pat Murphy called the Falling Woman. It's about a present day archeologist that can see the people from the past. Ross RossDman@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mexico by James A. Michener. Part of a long genealogy deals also with pre-columbian ancestors, intermeshed into a present-day bull-fight corrida. ------------------- AZTECA, by Gary Jenning. two comments: - A fanciful tale, impeccably researched. - Personally, I couldn't get through the book. I found to a little too far from the truth, with the flamboyant aspects distorted out of perspective. His research had a lot of the right facts, but the wrong contexts. ____________________________________ *Place of Mirrors* by Jeeni Criscenzo a journey back to the Ancient Maya http://www.jaguar-sun.com/ ______________________________________ You mean that there is a trashy novel about the Anasazi? There are three. Written by Linda Lay Shuler. 'She Who Remembers' 1987 'Voice of the Eagle' 1992 and 'Let the Drum Speak' 1996 Compared to these, Jane Auel writes literature. Dody, Santa Fe _________________________________________ A 'good' novel to check out is Sacrifice by John Farris, Tor Books,1995. It's about a guy who has received eternal life through Maya rituals in Peten. The catch: he has to kill a virgin every nineteen years during an eclipse to keep the regenerative process alive. To do this he keeps getting married, having a daughter, and keeping her virginal until the appointed moment (then he disappears and remarries under a different name and starts the process over again). The plot takes place in Georgia and Peten, with a thinly disguised Tikal and a town of 'ancient' living Maya. There's also the Hotel Maya International in Santa Elena, Peten (but under a different name). The cover of the book has a quote by Stephen King on Farris: "America's premier novelist of terror . . . Nobody does it better." Hardly!! John Montgomery