In Conquest Born is the monumental science fiction epic that received unprecedented acclaim--and launched C.S. Friedman's phenomenal career. A sweeping story of two interstellar civilizations--locked in endless war, it was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award.[...]
The tribal Braxana-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.[...]
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[...]
Two men, absolute enemies, must unite to conquer an evil greater than anything their world has ever known. One is a warrior priest ready to sacrifice anything and everything for the cause of humanity's progress; the other, a sorcerer who has survived for countless centuries by a total submission to [...]
Unlikely allies Damien and Tarrant are faced with an enemy who may prove invulnerable-a demon who has declared war on mankind. Called Calesta, he is a master of illusion and devourer of pain, and he plans to remake the human species until it exists only to sate his unquenchable thirst for suffering.[...]
At the end of her bestselling "Coldfire" trilogy, C.S. Friedman challenged readers to imagine what a world would be like if sorcery required the ultimate sacrifice-that of life itself. Now, in "Feast of Souls," she introduces us to a terrifying world in which the cost of magic is just that...in whic[...]
In order to use their powers, witches draw upon their own souls, thus shortening their lives, but the immortal male Magisters have a different, unknown source, and when Kamala petitions to be taught their secret, the entire kingdom is thrown into chaos. Reprint.[...]
The dark and mesmerizing "Magister" saga continues...
"Wings of Wrath" is the second novel in C. S. Friedman's "Magister" trilogy?a true high fantasy replete with vampire-style magic, erotic action, war, treachery, sorcerous danger, and one of the most terrifying dragon-like creatures in fantasy[...]
A masterwork of fantasy from the author of "Feast of Souls."..
Kamala, a peasant woman, has claimed the powerful sorcery of the Magisters as her own-the ability to draw on the power of the human soul without dying for it. But in her rise to power she finds herself hunted by the brotherhood, and[...]
"C.S. Friedman makes fantastic things-and frightening things-seem very real." -"New York Times" bestselling author Tad Williams. The young peasant woman Kamala has proven strong and determined enough to claim the most powerful Magister sorcery for herself-but now the Magisters hunt her for killing o[...]
"C.S. Friedman makes fantastic things-and frightening things-seem very real." -"New York Times" bestselling author Tad Williams. The young peasant woman Kamala has proven strong and determined enough to claim the most powerful Magister sorcery for herself-but now the Magisters hunt her for killing o[...]
All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica's dreams into his games. But now someone is asking[...]
All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica's dreams into his games. But now someone is asking[...]
The highly acclaimed author of In Conquest Born turns her attention to fantasy in her boldest and most provocative work to date. On a far-distant planet, ancestors of the original colonists from Earth are caught in a desperate battle for survival against the fae--a terrifying natural force that prey[...]
Very highly recommended by Science Fiction Review, this second book in the Coldfire trilogy follows Black Sun Rising. A high-action novel of discovery and battle on a planet where a magical force of nature has the power to prey upon the human mind. A warrior priest and a sorcerer--absolute enemies--[...]
In the first two volumes of her Coldfire trilogy, C. S. Friedman introduced readers to the beautiful but treacherous world of Erna, where humanity has fought a desperate struggle for survival against the fae - a force of nature which responds to the human psyche, indiscriminately bringing to life a [...]
It is the second stage of human colon-ization--the first age, humanity's initial attempt to people the stars, ended in disaster when it was discovered that Earth's original superluminal drive did permanent genetic damage to all who used it--mutating Earth's far-flung colonists in mind and body. Now,[...]
All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica s dreams into his games. But now someone is asking[...]