Empire of Silence

#1 Sun Eater

Christopher Ruocchio

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English

Gollancz
26 March 2019

Science fiction; Space opera; Space; Space Opera

Series: Sun Eater

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

It was not his war.

On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives - even the Emperor himself - against Imperial orders.

But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.

Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fighting a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

By: Christopher Ruocchio
Imprint: Gollancz
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781473218277
ISBN 10: 1473218276
Series: Sun Eater
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 26 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Ruocchio is a debut novelist writing in the tradition of Dune and The Book of the New Sun. He is an editorial assistant working for a US publishing house, and lives in North Carolina, USA. You can learn more at cruoochio.wordpress.com or by following @CPRuocchio on twitter.

Reviews for Empire of Silence (#1 Sun Eater)

Empire of Silence is epic science fiction at its most genuinely epic. Ruocchio has made something fascinating here, and I can't wait to see what he does next Empire of Silence is a rich tapestry of future history and worldbuilding, a galactic-sized story of a hero, a tyrant, but portrayed as a man A craftsman of rare ability, Christopher Ruocchio lures you into a future filled with danger, action, irony, vaulting prose, and a few, precious dollops of hope Fun in lots of ways, packed with technology which works like magic - Mark Lawrence