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(Publications) The Murdered Sun

The Murdered Sun
The Murdered Sun
  • First Released 2024
  • Publisher Planet 9 Press
  • Cover Artist Kieran Yanner
  • ISBN-13 9781838406363
  • Page Count 436
  • Series Sun Eater (Non-canonical)
  • Precedes Empire of Silence

The book that started it all

C.R. on The Murdered Sun

Before Hadrian Marlowe...there was Hadrian Marlowe. Not the Sun Eater of legend—not yet. The Murdered Sun is Christopher Ruocchio's original vision, the book that started it all. In this volume, explore the first part of the Sun Eater as it might have been. Meet a Hadrian who was never a gladiator, a Hadrian bonded and sold as a slave...a Hadrian who never met a certain Valka Onderra.

This was the novel that a 22-year-old Christopher Ruocchio originally sold to publishers back in January of AD 2016. Experience the Sun Eater universe as it might have been, before a single conversation changed the history of the series forever....

Full The Murdered Sun spoliers below, proceed with caution.

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Summary

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Publications

Edition Cover Publisher Cover Artist Interior Artist Format Pages Dimensions (MM) ISBN-13 Publication Date Notes
Anderida Books Special Edition The Murdered Sun Planet 9 Press Kieran Yanner Kieran Yanner Hardcover 436 [e.g. 166 x 124 x 42] 9781838406363 2024 Limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Ownership of the prior releases from Planet 9 Press ('... & Other Stories') guaranteed rights to purchase one of the first 850 copies with matchin number. The remaining 150 copies were reserved for general sale.

Trivia

  • Originally submitted as a draft manuscript in 2016, this edition recieved no physical edition until publication in 2024. Chapters were sporadically released to readers and subcribers of Christopher Ruocchio's Patreon.
  • The cover features Tor Gibson in Scholiast Greens and Hadrian Marlowe.

See Also

  • Planet 9 Press / Anderida Books (link forthcoming)