Empire of Silence
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About the book
It was not his war. On 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. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing 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 fighting a war he did not start, for an empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
Reading order · The Sun Eater
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 690 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 82% of the weight and the score stays at 7.9 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 690 | 100% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“Empire of Silence is a sci-fi / space opera set in the distant future, where humans have colonised the galaxy and are now fighting a war with an alien race known as the Cielcin. At the book's opening we get a pretty strong hook…”
“The first entry into the Sun Eater series, Empire of Silence, is decent. Positives - The premise is very interesting - As far as first books go, this sets up the worldbuilding very well, especially towards the latter half of the book. Neutral - Hadrian…”
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