{"product_id":"empire-of-silence-deluxe-hardcover-sun-eater","title":"Empire of Silence (Deluxe Hardcover) (Sun Eater)","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Special deluxe edition with sprayed edges, premium cover effects, map, new foreword, bonus content, and the short story \"The Pits of Emesh\"**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was not his war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daw","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050996449506,"sku":"9780756421168","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0658\/3045\/3474\/files\/9780756421168.jpg?v=1763571052","url":"https:\/\/www.talkinganimalsbooks.com\/products\/empire-of-silence-deluxe-hardcover-sun-eater","provider":"Talking Animals Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}