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Black Sun Rising (Coldfire)
Black Sun Rising - Coldfire
Author: C. S. Friedman
The Coldfire trilogy tells a story of discovery and battle against evil on a planet where a force of nature exists that is capable of reshaping the world in response to psychic stimulus. This terrifying force, much like magic, has the power to prey upon the human mind, drawing forth a person's worst nightmare images or most treasured dreams and ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780886774851
ISBN-10: 0886774853
Publication Date: 11/1/1991
Pages: 496
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Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Book Type: Hardcover
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The Coldfire Trilogy (Black Sun Rising is the first) are excellent books. In the same vein as Dragon Lance and the Shannara books... this trilogy has excellent character development, plot twists, and tons of action. They are also very well written--and IMO written in a straight forward, easy to read/follow style that puts them a level above the aforementioned 2 series...

The books don't follow the straight forward 'swords/socery' framework.. mixing both magic and science... The main characters are a priest--who honors and believes in the church but is challenged by many aspects of it (that said this IS NOT a bible thumping book---the 'church' in this book is a church of a distant alien world and the author doesn't use the book to make statements about faith).

The other main character is 'evil'.. someone who's forsaken their humanity (in a most brutal/dispicable way) for immense magical powers.

The blending of magic and science work well... and the characters are interesting, dynamic and well defined. I cannot recommend this series highly enough--one of my all time favorites (even more so than the aforementioned DragonLance and Shannara books). 5 stars to all three books... the series gets better and better with each book.

A word of warning.. don't start reading the first unless you have all three.. when you finish the first you'll be dying to read the rest.
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