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Christopher Ruocchio

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Born

in Raleigh, The United States

Website

https://www.sollanempire.com

Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comics

Member Since

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: 4.25 · 192,811 ratings · 22,369 reviews · 47 distinct works • Similar authors

	Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 56,337 ratings — published 2018 — 40 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) 4.34 avg rating — 30,343 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) 4.62 avg rating — 23,117 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) 4.47 avg rating — 18,602 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) 4.48 avg rating — 16,454 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) 4.57 avg rating — 13,880 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Shadows Upon Time (The Sun Eater, #7) 4.46 avg rating — 9,296 ratings — published 2025 — 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 Lesser Devil (The Sun Eater, #1.5) 3.85 avg rating — 8,303 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) 3.96 avg rating — 5,644 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) 4.15 avg rating — 3,538 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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“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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“It is a mistake to believe we must know a thing to be influenced by it. It is a mistake to believe the thing must even be real.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

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4th Quarter 2018 - SciFi Runoff

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

7 votes, 46.7%

Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, 704p

5 votes, 33.3%

Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio, 624p

3 votes, 20.0%

15 total votes

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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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