Empire Silence universe spanning science fiction epic

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxyspanning 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 liveseven the Emperor himselfagainst 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. Read what everyone is saying about Empire of SilenceA good read . . . a space opera with a feudal, in many ways medieval society where religion holds sway and heretics are extravagantly tortured . . . most of the technology is like magic . . . Ive not read scifi of this type for some time Mark Lawrence, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Prince of ThornsThe Name of the Wind but in space . . . an excellent SF story Goodreads reviewer, Everything from the dialogue, the action, to the worldbuilding is... | Christopher Ruocchio Empire of Silence : The universe-spanning science fiction epic