Christopher Ruocchio Books

Now available in trade paperback, the third novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy. For almost a hundred years, Hadrian Marlowe has served the Empire in its war against the Cielcin, a vicious alien race bent on humanity’s destruction. Rumors of a new king amongst the Cielcin have reached the Imperial throne. This one is not like the others. It does not raid borderworld territories, preferring precise, strategic attacks on the humans’ Empire. To make matters worse, a cult of personality has formed around Hadrian, spurred on by legends of his having defied death itself. Men call him Halfmortal. Hadrian’s rise to prominence proves dangerous to himself and his team, as pressures within the Imperial government distrust or resent his new influence. Caught in the middle, Hadrian must contend with enemies before him—and behind. And above it all, there is the mystery of the Quiet. Hadrian did defy death. He did return. But the keys to the only place in the universe where Hadrian might find the answers he seeks lie in the hands of the Emperor himself....

The fourth 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 trapped. For nearly a century, he has been a guest of the Emperor, forced into the role of advisor, a prisoner of his own legend. But the war is changing. Mankind is losing. The Cielcin are spilling into human space from the fringes, picking their targets with cunning precision. The Great Prince Syriani Dorayaica is uniting their clans, forging them into an army and threat the likes of which mankind has never seen. And the Empire stands alone. Now the Emperor has no choice but to give Hadrian Marlowe—once his favorite knight—one more impossible task: journey across the galaxy to the Lothrian Commonwealth and convince them to join the war. But not all is as it seems, and Hadrian’s journey will take him far beyond the Empire, beyond the Commonwealth, impossibly deep behind enemy lines.

In this sixth installment of the Sun Eater series, Hadrian Marlowe embarks on a perilous journey that intertwines elements of space opera and epic fantasy. As he navigates the complexities of his fate, the stakes rise dramatically, leading him toward a climactic confrontation that promises both destruction and revelation. The narrative explores themes of destiny and sacrifice against a backdrop of expansive cosmic settings.

In the fifth installment of the Sun Eater series, Hadrian Marlowe's journey intensifies as the galaxy faces destruction. Betrayed by the Commonwealth, the Sollan Empire stands alone against the united Cielcin forces. With the help of the witch Valka, Hadrian uncovers a dark truth about the gods and must protect the Emperor from impending doom.

Now in trade paperback, 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 discover a way to contact the elusive alien Cielcin. He has pursued false leads for years among the barbarian Normans as captain of a band of mercenaries, but Hadrian remains determined to make peace and bring an end to nearly four hundred years of war. Desperate to find answers, 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.

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.

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...

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.