The Sun Eater

Christopher Ruocchio

6 books

Hadrian Marlowe narrates his own life story from old age, knowing he will become a monster — a man who will destroy a sun and the intelligent life it harbors — yet compels you to understand how. Ruocchio's series is an unapologetically literary space opera drawing on classical tragedy, Dune, and Gene Wolfe, set across thousands of years of a feudal far-future humanity. Grand, melancholy, and magnificently written, it's the most ambitious new SF series of the 2020s.