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Empire of Silence

The universe-spanning science fiction epic

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Empire of Silence

By: Christopher Ruocchio
Narrated by: John Lee
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Summary

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds.

This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds. Of being passed over by his father for rule in favour of his younger brother and sent to a military academy against his wishes. Of being kidnapped in transit to that planet and sold into slavery on a planet at the edge of our war against the Cielcen...and of how he used their eventual attack to claw his way back into the dangers and opportunities of politics.

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©2018 Christopher Ruocchio (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group Dystopian Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Cyberpunk Adventure
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Beautiful, epic language. Of all the books I’ve read or listened to to date, this and Shantaram are the ones that made me wish I could write as beautifully.
The story implies greatness off the get go and that really pulls the reader in. The world seems large and interesting.
The main problems to me are that for readers who are enticed by greatness - we should get some tastes of it. In every encounter the protagonist is just normal and full of flaws and no genius. Also, the ‘poet’s exposition’ is nice in general, but when there’s a big fight scene for example - the fight scene bleeds out the adrenaline because it feels broken up into multiple episodes because of the tangents I’d thought and narrative.
I’m definitely going on to book two and hope the author just gets better at these points - if so this could really be something great.
As I said before I’ll say again - absolutely stunning and beautiful writing.

Scents if The Name of the Wind but not enough peaks

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loved the narrator. the story is class. only thing I dislike is the MC telling the story, makes me not take any combat seriously because I know he's going to be alright. I'll keep reading. I enjoyed it.

Self narrative is meh

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Was a bit slow to start but once it gets going it brilliant can’t wait to see where this story goes

The Scale of this universe is insane

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Superb story telling in both narration and writing, world building and imagination. One of the best starts to a book series I've listened to in years.

Outstanding Narration

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one of the better readers i have heard so far yes yes yes yes yes yes

brilliant storytelling by CR. brilliant

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