{"product_id":"empire-of-silence-deluxe-hardcover-9780756421168","title":"Empire of Silence (Deluxe Hardcover)","description":"\u003cb\u003e**Special deluxe edition with sprayed edges, premium cover effects, map, new foreword, bonus content, and the short story \"The Pits of Emesh\"** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHadrian 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmbitious universe-building combines with intimate character portraits for storytelling on a truly epic scale--for fans of Orson Scott Card, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Patrick Rothfuss and Jack Campbell \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was not his war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Ruocchio\u003c\/b\u003e is the internationally award-winning author of the Sun Eater, a series blending elements of both science fiction and fantasy, as well as more than twenty-five works of short fiction. A graduate of North Carolina State University, he sold his first novel, Empire of Silence, at twenty-two. His books have appeared in nine languages. Christopher lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife and children.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Daw Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51721016279314,"sku":"9780756421168","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4f07e978-f94a-4add-81df-b63f8b868718.jpg?v=1762946607","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/empire-of-silence-deluxe-hardcover-9780756421168","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}