The Murdered Sun
- First Released
- May 26, 2025
- Publisher
- Planet 9 Press
- Cover Artist
- Kieran Yanner
- Word Count
- N/A
- Series
- Sun Eater (Non-canonical)
- Precedes
- Empire of Silence
- First Released
- May 26, 2025
- Publisher
- Planet 9 Press
- Cover Artist
- Kieran Yanner
- Word Count
- N/A
- Series
- Sun Eater (Non-canonical)
- Precedes
- Empire of Silence
The book that started it all
— C.R. on The Murdered Sun
The Murdered Sun is the non-canonical, original draft of Empire of Silence, the first book in the Sun Eater series by Christopher Ruocchio. It tells the story of Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered and despised as the one who annihilated an entire species from the universe. Though the end must be, the path is different. The Murdered Sun was published by Anderida Books on May 26, 2025.
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Synopsis
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....
— Synopsis on anderidabooks.co.uk
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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 |
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Planet 9 Press | Kieran Yanner | Kieran Yanner; Map by Daniel Hasenbos | Hardcover | 436 | 175 x 250 | 9781838406363 | May 26, 2025 | 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 2025. Chapters were sporadically released to readers and subcribers of Christopher Ruocchio's Patreon.
- The cover features Tor Gibson in Scholiast Greens and Hadrian Marlowe.
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