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Hadrian Marlowe may be revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, but there's only one way to hear his true story: relayed in his own words, in this incredible fusion of space opera and epic fantasy.

The fourth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.

The second novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire. Hadrian Marlowe is lost. For half a century, he has searched the farther suns for the lost planet of Vorgossos, hoping to find a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has not succeeded, and for years has wandered among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries. Determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly four hundred years of war, Hadrian must venture beyond the security of the Sollan Empire and among the Extrasolarians who dwell between the stars. There, he will face not only the aliens he has come to offer peace, but contend with creatures that once were human, with traitors in his midst, and with a meeting that will bring him face to face with no less than the oldest enemy of mankind. If he succeeds, he will usher in a peace unlike any in recorded history. If he fails...the galaxy will burn.

"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." —James S.A. Corey, New York Times-bestselling author of The Expanse novels 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.

FROM THE RAVAGES OF WAR, HOPE FOR A BRIGHTER TOMORROW After World War III has ravaged the globe and toppled once-great nations, a new science offers hope for the future Psychodynamics, the ability to influence government and popular opinion. Led by the Psychotechnic Institute, humanity denounces its violent ways, once and for all. Peace reigns on Earth.Humankind shakes off the tyranny of gravity and ventures out into the galaxy. But no sooner is utopia realized than the cycle of war and destruction begins anew. The second of three volumes collectingallof multiple Hugo- and Nebula-Award winning author Poul Andersons massive

Crispin Marlowe grew up in his brother’s shadow, but Hadrian is gone, and his grandmother—the duchess of Delos—is dying. Answering her summons, Crispin takes off on what should be a routine flight to the ducal palace from the castle at Devil’s Rest. But he is flying into a trap. There are whispers of treachery among the duchess’s many daughters, rumors of hidden knives in the planet’s court... if he can even make it there. With no one coming to save him and only his sister, Sabine, and a few injured guardsmen to protect him, House Marlowe’s least famous son must make his heroic stand, and contend not only the foes arrayed against his house, but with the cultists who dwell in the mountains above his family’s ancestral home...

The fifth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.

The sixth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire. The end is nigh. It has been nearly two hundred years since Hadrian Marlowe assaulted the person of the Emperor and walked away from war. From his Empire. His duty. From the will and service of the eldritch being known only as the Quiet. The galaxy lies in the grip of a terrible plague, and worse, the Cielcin have overrun the realms of men. A messenger has come to Jadd, bearing a summons from the Sollan Emperor for the one-time hero. A summons, a pardon, and a plea. HAPSIS, the Emperor’s secret first-contact intelligence organization, has located one of the dreadful Watchers, the immense, powerful beings worshipped by the Pale Cielcin. Called out of retirement and exile, the old hero—accompanied by his daughter, Cassandra—must race across the galaxy and against time to accomplish one last, impossible task: To kill a god.

První svazek cyklu Pojídač slunce, v němž se snoubí space opera a epická fantasy se stoickou filozofií a meditacemi nad povahou lidství. Byla to válka, kterou nezačal, ve jménu Císařství, které nenávidí, a proti nepříteli, kterému nerozumí. Jedni na něj vzpomínají jako na hrdinu: muže, který spálil nebe a vyhubil krvelačné Cielcin. Jiní ho mají za zrůdu: Pojídače slunce, který bez mrknutí oka zhasil miliardy životů a odvrhl všemocné Sollanské císařství. Hadrian se ale nenarodil jako hrdina, ani jako zrůda, dokonce ani jako voják. Vlastní matka se k jeho porodu dostavila pozdě a jeho život začal v kádi, kde byl vypěstován na objednávku svého otce. Místo nalinkované dráhy inkvizitora fanatické Kaple si volí cestu vyděděnce, která ho provede skrz krvavou řež kolosea, intriky hraběcího dvora až k prvnímu setkání s hrůznými Cielcin, tajemství jejichž původu hrozí otřást samými základy lidského pojetí vesmíru. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Nejstarší sok lidského druhu čeká a stezka k němu vede jedině skrze temnotu vesmíru. Tma houstne a Hadrian Marlowe se ve druhém svazku ságy Pojídač slunce noří do čím dál hutnější směsice epické fantasy a space opery, kterou tentokrát rozleptává i notná dávka kosmického hororu. Hadrian je ztracen. Coby kapitán žoldnéřů se už půl století toulá mezi hvězdami a marně pátrá po temné planetě Vorgossos, aby navázal kontakt s hrůznou rasou Cielcin a ukončil tak téměř čtyři sta let zuřící válku. V zoufalé snaze najít odpovědi se musí pustit za bezpečné hranice Sollanského císařství do temných hlubin kosmu, brázděných tajemnými Extrasolariany, kteří se dávno zřekli imperiálního slunce a spojili svá těla se zapovězenými stroji. Pokud chce Hadrian uspět, bude muset čelit běsům přesahujícím hranice svého chápání, a nakonec dát všanc i samo svoje lidství.