{"product_id":"9780756421168","title":"Empire of Silence: Deluxe Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003e**Special deluxe edition with sprayed edges, premium cover effects, map, new foreword, bonus content, and the short story \"The Pits of Emesh\"**\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was not his war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"Christopher Ruocchio","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":51657772924984,"sku":"9780756421168","price":60.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/4075\/files\/BNCImageAPI_1ab2a4dc-3712-469f-b9bb-0cb505ee3276.jpg?v=1781631077","url":"https:\/\/www.litwineandbooks.com\/products\/9780756421168","provider":"Lit Wine \u0026 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}