Questions About Black Sun Rising (The Coldfire Trilogy, #1)

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Arnstein The trilogy feels and behaves mostly like a fantasy story, but the fictional technology is also important. The humans originally came from Earth in a …moreThe trilogy feels and behaves mostly like a fantasy story, but the fictional technology is also important. The humans originally came from Earth in a spaceship and brought a lot of advanced tech with them. This is the fictional science element. Then they land on Erna, a planet with a mystical/magical force (the fantasy element) which the technology reacts poorly to. Much of the story concerns itself with this crash between the two elements, (more so early on than later), and therefore any description of it needs to acknowledge both. I find that 'high fantasy with some sci-fi in it' is a reasonably accurate categorization.(less)

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What is The Core that the characters keep mentioning? A celestial object of some kind. Do they mean the galactic core? They can see it from the planet's surface? Thought they were talking about a second sun, at first. Now I'm confused.

David Stevens The Core is the center of the galaxy, as I understand it. Erna is so far out on the edge of the galaxy it shows as a giant, bright cluster of stars.

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David Stevens A few tiny drops remained in the cracked vial he retained. Not enough to be useful as a weapon, but enough to slightly illuminate.

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Hi! How clean is this book/series? Thanks!

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