Empire of silence / Christopher Ruocchio.
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 fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780756413002
- ISBN: 0756413001
- ISBN: 9780756413019
- ISBN: 9780756419264
- Physical Description: viii, 612 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : Daw Books, Inc., [2018]
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- 6 of 11 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | FIC RUOCCHIO (Text) | 36015000730941 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bladen Main Branch | FIC RUO (Text) | 30441100991256 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| East Regional Library | F RUOCCHIO (Text) | 31781065058354 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/18/2026 |
| Gunn Memorial Public Library | YA F RUO (Text) | 34621991150189 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | RUO (Text) | 33258008866068 | Adult Fiction Science Fiction | Checked out | 08/19/2026 |
| Jackson County Public Library | F RUOCCHIO (Text) | 39493108379803 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library | PBK SF (Text) | 39149008064347 | Adult Fiction Paperback | Available | - |
| Lenoir Library | F RUOCCHIO Christopher (Text) | 50669013359329 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/12/2026 |
| Lewisville Branch | FIC Ruocchio, Christopher (Text) | 0112522575441 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/22/2026 |
| Pack Memorial Library | F RUO (Text) | 0020511943035 | Adult Fiction | In transit | - |
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Summary:
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 fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
