{"product_id":"9780756413002","title":"Empire of Silence: The Sun Eater: Book One","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[E]pic science fiction at its most genuinely epic\u003c\/b\u003e.\" --James S.A. Corey, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of The Expanse novels \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This wow book is a must for fans of Pierce Brown and Patrick Rothfuss.\" --Library Journal (starred) \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was not his war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForced 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.","brand":"Daw Books (Author: Ruocchio, Christopher)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49975712514405,"sku":"9780756413002","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/0538\/5573\/files\/imageloader_7d477e03-86d3-4f18-a207-a934911985a7.jpg?v=1770206869","url":"https:\/\/paralleluniversebooks.com\/products\/9780756413002","provider":"Parallel Universe Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}