Black Sun Rising
- 544
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Friedman’s “Black Sun Rising” begins the “Coldfire” trilogy with a richly imagined, original world. Its characters hold the interest too. Some readers find the telling slow and heavy with description, and see traditional fantasy under the science-fiction surface. At over five hundred pages, it is the first of three volumes.
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About the book
Black Sun Rising, published in 1991, is a science fantasy novel by American writer C. S. Friedman. It is the first book in the Coldfire Trilogy, followed by When True Night Falls.
Reading order · Coldfire Trilogy
Full order & progress →- Black Sun RisingThis book
7.77.7 / 10 - When True Night Falls
7.97.9 / 10 - Crown of Shadows
8.08.0 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 121 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 45% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 6 | 5% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 115 | 95% |
Frequently asked
How long is Black Sun Rising?
It has 544 pages — longer than 52% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
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