C.S. Friedman is the
author of 'In Conquest
Born', 'The Madness Season', and the highly acclaimed 'Coldfire'
trilogy -
'Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls', and 'Crown of Shadows'. Ms.
Friedman
shares her house with several large cats and an enviable range of
antique
clothing.
Series
In Conquest Born
In Conquest Born
Michael Whelan
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The Wilding
Michael Whelan
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In
Conquest Born
Braxi and
Azea-two interstellar civilizations fighting an endless war
over a long-forgotten cause; two peoples descended from the human
species and bred over countless generations to embody opposing ideals,
seeking opposite paths to power.
The
Braxana-dominant tribe of the fierce Braxin Holding-are brilliant,
powerful, and aloof from the society they rule. There were bred by
their primitive forebears to be aggressive, competitive, and secretive
beyond all prior human norms. The mysteries of their internal society
are legendary even among the people they rule.
The
Azeans-masters
of genetic science-have redesigned their own race to reflect ancient
ideals. Now they seek to unlock the powers of the human mind, using
telepathy to penetrate where mere weapons cannot.
But Zatar
and
Anzha-master Braxana and Azean generals-have exceeded all genetic
expectations of their opposed cultures, and have made this endless war
a personal vendetta. Who can say what will happen when these ultimate
warriors use every power of mind and body to claim the vengeance of
total conquest?
The
Wilding
The tribal
Braxaná-created to become the ultimate warriors.
The Azeans-raised to master the power of the mind. Two civilizations
fighting an endless war over a long-forgotten cause. Now, after a
century and a half, the legacy of their greatest military leaders
threatens to tear apart both empires.
Coldfire
Black Sun Rising
Michael
Whelan
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When True Nigh Falls
Michael
Whelan
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Crown of Shadows
Michael
Whelan
|
Black
Sun Rising
Over a millennium ago, Erna, a seismically active
yet beautiful world was settled by colonists from far-distant Earth.
But the seemingly habitable planet was fraught with perils no one could
have foretold, and the colonists found themselves caught in a desperate
battle for survival against the fae, a terrifying natural force with
the power to prey upon the human mind itself, drawing forth images from
a person's worst nightmare or most treasured dreams and
indiscriminately giving them life. Twelve centuries after fate first
stranded the colonists on Erna, mankind has achieved an uneasy
stalemate, and human sorcerers manipulate the fae for their own profit,
little realising that demonic forces which feed upon such efforts are
rapidly gaining in strength. Now, as the hordes of the dark fae
multiply, four people - Priest, Adept, Apprentice and Sorcerer - are
about to be drawn inexorably together for a mission which will force
them to confront an evil beyond their imagining, in a conflict which
will put not only their own lives but the very fate of humankind in
jeopardy ...
When
True Night Falls
'You can't stop it now. The offer's been made. The
sacrifice-'
'Is canceled, here
and now. Move back from the tram.'
For a moment Ian just
stared at him; comprehension dawned at last. 'You
thought I was going to kill them,' he whispered hoarsely.
Incredulously. 'You thought I would kill my own people-'
'What the hell was I
supposed to think?' Case snapped. 'You took them
from the camp. You dedicated a sacrifice, then came at them with a
knife. You tell me what conclusions to draw from that!'
The botanist opened
his hand; the knife fell beside his feet. 'I was
going to cut them loose,' he said. 'I brought them so they wouldn't get
hurt…Commander.'
Case shook his head
sharply. 'You forget that we were here. We heard you. I give you the
lifeblood of Terra-'
He stopped. Stared.
Through the eyes of a man, into the madness that lay beyond.
And he knew.
He knew.
Oh, my God…
Crown
of Shadows
The dreams were all he had now. The hate was all that
was holding him together.
That and the drugs.
Alcohol to numb the
fear, to ease the pain of remembering. Cerebus for
the madness within him, the beast that must have outlet now and then or
it would swallow him whole. Slowtime for visions of color and music in
a world washed gray by sorrow. And blackout - blessed blackout - little
black pills for a taste of oblivion, for shadows of death to fold about
him like a cocoon, shutting out all the pain and the beauty and the
hope and the fear - shutting it all out, every last bit of that agony
called life. Long enough for him to rest. Long enough for him to sleep.
Blackout for the coward within him, afraid to go on living but more
afraid to die.
Magister
Feast of Souls
John Jude Palencar
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The Wings of
Wrath
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Feast
of Souls
In the High Kingdom of Danton Aurelius,
magisters
from across the known world are gathering for an unusual meeting. The
High King's son is dying of an apparently incurable wasting disease,
and he has charged them with providing an explanation and a cure. There
is a mystery here, but not the one the High King thinks: the magisters
know the cause of the prince's illness but they dare not reveal it for
fear that it will expose the secret at the heart of their order. No,
the mystery is not what is responsible, but who...Now the magisters
must embark upon a manhunt, racing against time, before the High King
learns the truth. But they have not counted on the young prince's
determination to control his own fate, nor on the existence of Kamala,
a young woman schooled in their own arts, who will soon shake the world
to its very roots.
The
Wings of Wrath
Novels
The Madness Season
Michael Whelan
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This Alien Shore
Michael Whelan
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The Erciyes Fragments
|
The Madness Season
Daetrin, a man
but not a man, is taken into custody by the Tyr. Over 300 years had
passed since the Tyr conquered Earth
and squelched all vestiges of human imagination and creativity. Daetrin
was there when it happened. He was there a long
time before it happened, too. The Tyr had all of humanities scientists
enslaved on hostile planets, to discover
technological marvels that could be put to use against other races the
Tyr were conquering. The key to humanity's freedom
is within Daetrin, but can he unlock it before the Tyr discover what
the scientists have been hiding from them?
The
Erciyes Fragments
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