We are excited to welcome Christopher Ruocchio and Jesse Aragon to celebrate the release of their new books Shadows Upon Time and The Demon.

We are excited to welcome Christopher Ruocchio and Jesse Aragon to Waterstones Nottingham to celebrate the release of their new books Shadows Upon Time and The Demon Star. Christopher and Jesse will be in conversation with Stephen Aryan.

Shadows Upon Time – Christopher Ruocchio

The trumpet sounds.

The end has come at last. After his victory at Vorgossos, Hadrian Marlowe finds himself a fugitive, on the run not only from the Extrasolarians, but from his own people, the Sollan Empire he betrayed—and who betrayed him. Hidden safely beyond the borders of human space, Hadrian awaits the arrival of the one ally he has left: the Jaddian Prince Kaim-Olorin du Otranto.

What's more, the inhuman Cielcin have vanished, unseen for more than one hundred years. The armies of men have grown complacent, but Hadrian knows the truth: the Cielcin are gathering their strength, preparing for their final assault against the heart of all mankind.

Only Hadrian possesses the power to stem the tide: an ancient war machine, forged by the daimon machines at the dawn of time. The mighty Demiurge. With it, Hadrian must face not just the Cielcin horde, but their Prophet-King, and the dark gods it serves—the very gods who shaped the universe itself.

This must be.

The Demon Star – Jesse Aragon

Gods rule this planet. Demons stalk its canyons while Kings begfor mercy. Can three mere humans rewrite its destiny?

The otherworldly religious conflict of Dune, the cosmicstrangeness of Gideon the Ninth, and the heart-pounding actionof Red Rising converge in this horror-tinged epic sciencefantasy debut Ysira Naktis was a human sacrifice, marked for death. Unlike thethousands ‘harvested’ each year, though, she did theunthinkable. She survived—and what she brought back with hercould change the fate of worlds.

When Ysira’s estranged son is chosen to become the vessel of agod-killing demon, she is faced with a choice: allow him toharness cosmic power at an unspeakable cost, or doom millionsto save him. She finds an unlikely ally in Brother Jacen Kheris,once a gifted exorcist, now a guilt-ridden addict, desperate forpurpose.

Christopher and Jesse will talk about their new books before an audiene Q&A and book signing.

Christopher Ruocchio is the internationally award-winning author of The Sun Eater, a space opera fantasy series, and the former Junior Editor at Baen Books, where he edited several anthologies. His work has also appeared in Marvel comics. 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. His books have appeared in five languages. Christopher lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, Jenna.

Jesse Aragon is an SFF writer based in St Louis. She grew up overseas, and “home” for her is everywhere from Brussels, Belgium to Albuquerque, New Mexico. When she’s not writing, she enjoys drawing, lifting, watching horror movies, and hanging out with her cat. She has a BA in Psychology from CU Boulder, and has been a home health aide, an ER tech, an EMT-I, and an RN. Her jobs have consistently been much stranger than any fiction she writes.

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