Bücher von Christopher Ruocchio

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.

Hadrian Marlowe may be revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, but there's only one way to hear his true story: relayed in his own words, in this incredible fusion of space opera and epic fantasy.

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.It was not his war.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.On 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.Forced 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.

In einer weit entfernten Zukunft hat die Menschheit die Galaxie besiedelt und ein gewaltiges Sternenreich errichtet. Seit vielen Hundert Jahren befindet sich das Imperium im Krieg gegen die außerirdische Zivilisation der Cielcin, die mit ihren gewaltigen Eisschiffen bereits Tausende Planeten zerstört haben - einem Krieg, in dem sich Hadrian Marlowe als Held hervorgetan hat. Umso schwerer wiegt sein Verrat, wegen dem er auf seine Hinrichtung wartet: Er hat ein ganzes Sonnensystem ausgelöscht. Nun, kurz vor seinem Tod, erinnert sich Hadrian an sein Leben. Dies ist seine Geschichte ...