{"product_id":"empire-of-silence-deluxe-hardcover","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.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0756421160\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780756421168\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Ruocchio, Christopher, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Daw Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Daw Books","offers":[{"title":"HardCover (Nov 2025)","offer_id":45659818033349,"sku":"9780756421168","price":42.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780756421168.jpg?v=1768914533","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/empire-of-silence-deluxe-hardcover","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}