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Empire of Silence
A Science Fiction Novel by Christopher Ruocchio
Book 1 of the Sun Eater Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Space Opera,
- Military Science Fiction,
- Science Fantasy
This book is for you if you're into...
- Galaxy-spanning epics with crumbling theocratic empires
- Morally gray protagonists haunted by both legend and infamy
- Gladiator arenas mixed with court intrigue on alien worlds
From Little Stack
The Sollan Empire shares a few similarities with the empire in Dune: it’s ancient, spans countless star systems, dominates human space, and maintains a staunch hierarchical structure. Only this Empire leans heavily on theocracy, too, with the Chantry enforcing strict religious doctrine and governing (read: restricting and censoring) every aspect of technological process.
The ruling class enjoys near-immortality, which has increased their power but also creates a decadence that is clearly contributing to the slow decay of the Empire despite the near-endless war with the Cielcin race. And as with Dune, rebellion is inevitable.
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.
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. 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.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.
Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
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