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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction
Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.
It was not his war.
The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives—even the Emperor himself—against Imperial orders.
But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.
On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.
Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.
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The Future
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Naomi Alderman
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The latest novel from the Women’s Prize-winning author of The Power,
The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of
the world we have made and where we are going.
Lai Zhen is about to die. As an Internet-famous survivalist, she’s
spent her life prepping for the end of the world. But now, desperate
and cornered in a mall in Singapore, she’s mad she might go out not
knowing what the hell is going on. If she makes it out alive, what kind
of a future will be waiting for her?
Across the world, Martha Einkorn works the room at a gathering of
mega-rich companies hell-bent securing a future just for them. Covert
weapons, private weather, technological prophecy, when Martha fled her
father’s compound she may have left the cult behind, but if the
apocalyptic warnings of his fox and rabbit sermon are starting to come
true, how much future is actually left?
Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. While a few billionaires
assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s
relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to
something beautiful … or the cataclysmic end of civilization.
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