Císařství ticha – Ruocchio Christopher (2024)

The first part of the epic sci-fi series Sun Eater. It was a war he did not start, in the name of an Empire he hates, and against an enemy he does not understand. Some remember him as a hero: the man who burned the sky and exterminated the bloodthirsty Cielcin. Others see him as a monster: the sun eater who extinguished billions of lives without a second thought and cast aside the all-powerful Sollan Empire. But Hadrian was not born a hero, nor a monster, not even a soldier. His own mother arrived late for his birth, and his life began in a vat, where he was grown to order by his father. Instead of the preordained path of an inquisitor of the fanatical Chapel, he chooses the path of an outcast, which leads him through the bloody slaughter of the coliseum, the intrigues of the count's court, to his first encounter with the horrific Cielcin, the secret of whose origin threatens to shake the very foundations of humanity's understanding of the universe. Hadrian Marlowe takes on the role of a myth-laden storyteller in the first volume of the Sun Eater cycle, which combines the best of space opera and epic fantasy, infused with stoic philosophy and meditations on the nature of humanity.