Determinati a sconfiggere un essere malvagio che minaccia l'essenza stessa dello spirito umano, due nemici assoluti non avranno altra scelta se non quella di unire le forze. Sono il prete-guerriero Damien Vryce, pronto a sacrificare tutto per il progresso dell'umanità, e Gerald Tarrant, uno stregone che è sopravvissuto per innumerevoli secoli grazie alla sua completa sottomissione alle forze del male. Accompagnati da Hesseth, una donna della specie nativa del pianeta Erna, si accingono ad attraversare il più grande oceano del loro mondo, l'Oceano di Novatlantide, dominato da vulcani attivi e pericoli legati al fae, una terribile forza della natura in grado di evocare le mostruosità che si celano nelle profondità dei nostri incubi. Una missione che cambierà per sempre le loro vite. Fondendo fantascienza e fantasy come succede per la saga Star Wars, il secondo libro della Trilogia del sole nero, L'oceano del sole nero, prosegue l'oscuro racconto di un mondo alieno in cui gli incubi diventano realtà e conferma la reputazione di Celia S. Friedman come narratrice innovativa e di talento.

Più di un millennio fa, il pianeta Erna fu colonizzato da esploratori provenienti dalla Terra. Incapaci di prevedere i pericoli che si celavano sul mondo alieno, i coloni si trovarono coinvolti in una disperata battaglia per la sopravvivenza contro il fae, una terribile forza naturale con il potere di dare vita sia ai sogni più intimi che agli incubi più terrificanti che si annidano nelle profondità della mente umana. Dodici secoli dopo, l'umanità ha raggiunto una situazione di stallo in cui gli stregoni umani manipolano il fae per il proprio profitto, senza rendersi conto che le loro azioni non fanno altro che alimentare nuove forze demoniache. Ora, mentre la forza del fae aumenta, un sacerdote, un adepto, un apprendista e uno stregone si imbarcano in una missione che li vedrà fronteggiare una nuova creatura, la cui malvagità va al di là di ogni immaginazione. Un conflitto che metterà in pericolo le loro vite e il destino dell'umanità intera. Mescolando fantascienza e fantasy, il primo libro della Trilogia del sole nero racconta la storia di un mondo alieno in cui gli incubi diventano realtà.

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 about those dreams...and about her. A strange woman has been watching her house. A visitor to her school attempts to take possession of her dream-inspired artwork. Why? As she begins to search for answers it becomes clear that whoever is watching her does not want her to learn the truth. One night her house catches on fire, and when the smoke clears she discovers that her brother has been kidnapped. She must figure out what is going on, and quickly, if she and her family are to be safe. Following clues left behind on Tommy's computer, determined to find her brother and bring him home safely, Jessica and two of her friends are about to embark on a journey that will test their spirits and their courage to the breaking point, as they must leave their own world behind and confront the source of Earth's darkest legends – as well as the terrifying truth of their own secret heritage.

Kamala, a peasant woman well-versed in powerful magic, is sought by the Magister sorcerers for murder and flees to the northern Protectorates where a curse called the Wrath warps her spells.

At the end of her 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 which the fuel for sorcery is the very fire of the human spirit, and those who hunger for magical power must pay for it with their lives. In this tale of nightmarish shadows and desperate hope, the greatest threat of all may not be that of ancient enemies returned, or ancient wars resumed, but of the darkness that lies within the hearts of men.
In the court of High King Danton Aurelius, young Prince Andovan lies dying of a mysterious malady known only as the Wasting. Determined to save his son from this incurable disease, the High King summons a council of Magisters to aid him. These solitary, seemingly immortal sorcerers rarely combine forces for any purpose, but in this one case they are willing to unite. For there is a fearsome secret the Magisters guard above all else - the nature of the transformation that sets them apart from all other sorcerers, allowing them to draw on the power of a human soul without dying for it - a secret that might be exposed if the High King learns too much about his son's illness. For the dread disease called the Wasting is in fact a sign that a Magister is stealing the young man's soulfire to fuel his sorcery, and that is a truth that must be hidden from the mortal world at any cost.
Now the Magisters must hunt down one of their own before the High King learns the truth, and find a way to sever the link between Andovan and his killer. But they have not counted on the young prince's determination to control his own fate, nor on the existence of a young woman, schooled in their own arts, who will soon shake their secretive society to its very roots.
Sold into prostitution by her peasant mother while she was still a child, Kamala has learned the hardest lessons life can teach. Her mane of wild red hair and her diamond-hard eyes reflect the wellspring of strength and defiance within her - a hunger to live by her own rules at any cost. Honed by cruelty and poverty, she has become a fierce creature, and with the help of one reclusive Magister may well become the first of her sex to master true sorcery. But at what cost to herself, and to her world?
Against a backdrop of glittering kingdoms and dark prophecies these two young people will be forced to confront their destinies...while in the shadows of their world an ancient Evil is stirring for the first time in centuries, seeking allies in a cause more terrible than any living man can imagine.

Le Creature del Buio avevano derubato il potere alla maga ma un adepto, un guerriero e un apprendista che l'amava, erano pronti a condurla fino nelle terre più remote e ostili di Erna per restituirglielo.

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Twelve centuries after the first colonists are stranded on Erna, a seismically active planet inhabited by a natural force that preys on humans' worst nightmares, four colonists begin a mission to confront the evil. Original.

Daetrin finds he must resist the Tyr, an alien race with a unified gestalt mind that has subjugated humankind, and fight the alien force within himself