Skučící temnota – Ruocchio Christopher (2025)

The oldest rival of humankind awaits, and the path to him leads only through the darkness of the universe.

The darkness thickens, and Hadrian Marlowe plunges into an ever denser mixture of epic fantasy and space opera in the second volume of the Sun Eater saga, which this time is also corroded by a hefty dose of cosmic horror.

Hadrian is lost. As a captain of mercenaries, he has been wandering among the stars for half a century, desperately searching for the dark planet Vorgossos to make contact with the terrifying Cielcin race and thus end nearly four hundred years of raging war.

In a desperate attempt to find answers, he must venture beyond the safe borders of the Sollan Empire into the dark depths of space, traversed by the mysterious Extrasolarian beings who long ago renounced the imperial sun and fused their bodies with forbidden machines. If Hadrian wants to succeed, he will have to confront demons that transcend the limits of his understanding and ultimately risk even his own humanity.