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Christopher Ruocchio

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Born

in Raleigh, The United States

Website

https://www.sollanempire.com

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comics

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May 2018

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Christopher Ruocchio is the author of The Sun Eater, a space opera fantasy series, as well as the Assistant Editor at Baen Books, where he has co-edited four anthologies. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University, where he studied English Rhetoric and the Classics. Christopher has been writing since he was eight and sold his first novel, Empire of Silence, at twenty-two. To date, his books have been published in five languages.

Christopher lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, Jenna. He may be found on both Facebook and Twitter with the handle ‘TheRuocchio.’

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Average rating: 4.24 · 240,154 ratings · 27,331 reviews · 55 distinct works • Similar authors

	Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 68,345 ratings — published 2018 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Howling Dark (The Sun Eater, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 37,281 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Demon in White (The Sun Eater, #3) 4.61 avg rating — 28,853 ratings — published 2020 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingdoms of Death (The Sun Eater, #4) 4.46 avg rating — 23,495 ratings — published 2022 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashes of Man (The Sun Eater, #5) 4.46 avg rating — 20,931 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disquiet Gods (The Sun Eater, #6) 4.54 avg rating — 18,061 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7) 4.43 avg rating — 13,969 ratings — published 2025 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lesser Devil (The Sun Eater, #1.5) 3.84 avg rating — 9,688 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Queen Amid Ashes (The Sun Eater, #2.5) 3.94 avg rating — 6,744 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dregs of Empire (The Sun Eater, #5.5) 4.13 avg rating — 4,405 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Sun Eater (7 books)
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“My memory is to the world as a drawing is to the photograph. Imperfect. More perfect. We remember what we must, what we choose to, because it is more beautiful and real than the truth.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

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“Sad is like a big ocean, and you can’t breathe deep down. You can float on it, you can swim a little, but be careful. Grief is drowning. Grief is deep water.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark

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“The man who hopes for the future delays its arrival, and the man who dreads it summons it to his door.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

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4th Quarter 2018 - SciFi #2

Rosewater by Tade Thompson, 432p

6 votes, 35.3%

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, 704p

4 votes, 23.5%

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, 351p

4 votes, 23.5%

Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton, 768p

1 vote, 5.9%

A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White, 480p

1 vote, 5.9%

The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds, 502p

1 vote, 5.9%

Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, 624p

0 votes, 0.0%

Darknet by Matthew Mather, 371p

0 votes, 0.0%

Thrawn by Timothy Zahn, 427p (Oct)

0 votes, 0.0%

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Christopher’s Quotes

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“As the ancient sea was cruel, so too is that blacker sea, vaster by far, that fills the void between the suns like water.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

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“But the truth is poor poetry”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

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“Atrocity is writ by quiet men in council chambers over crystal glasses of cool water. Strange little men with ashes in their hearts. Sans passion, sans hope… sans everything. Everything but fear.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

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“Augustine once said that if there are such things as the past and the future, they do not exist as such but are only the present in their own times. The past, he says, exists only in memory and the future only in expectation. Neither is real.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

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