- Fiction, Space warfare, Human-alien encounters, Gladiators
It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky.
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Grave, epic, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Christopher Ruocchio
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 612
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781664470125
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