Christopher Ruocchio

Christopher Ruocchio is an American award-winning fantasy and space opera author best known for his Sun Eater book series. He’s also an assistant editor at Baen Books. The first and the second novels in the Sun Eater series won Manly Wade Wellman Award and were nominated for the 2020 Dragon Award, respectively. Christopher has co-edited four anthologies and wrote Thor’s story for Avengers #750. He was born and raised in North Carolina. From a staunch roman catholic, Christopher attended Catholic schools till high school and later graduated with a degree in English rhetoric from North Carolina State University. Christopher’s debut novel, Empire of Silence, was published in 2018 by DAW Books, and later self-published a novella, The Lesser Devil, in February 2020. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his family.Empire of Silence is the first book in Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series, first published in 2018. If you’re an epic fantasy lover who wants to see extreme storytelling, intriguing world-building, and likeable characters in science fiction, then, Empire of Silence is the perfect novel for you. In his ambitious debut novel, Christopher introduces us to Hadrian Marlowe, a hero or a monster- based on your perspective. Before he became famous as the man who vanquished an alien species by burning the sun and extinguishing billions of lives, he was the disappointed firstborn son of an aristocratic archon and the heir to the family’s uranium empire. Because much of his history has been misconstrued or disguised, Hadrian’s description of his life demonstrates much more to the tale than is apparent.