Red Rising · Book 5
Dark Age
- Published
- 30 July 2019
- Pages
- 800
- ISBN-13
- 9781980000174
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dark Age, the longest Red Rising novel at 800 pages, arrived in 2019 as the second entry in the saga's darker second trilogy. It falls between Iron Gold and Light Bringer, continuing the ensemble-cast, morally compromised story Pierce Brown builds after Darrow's original rise.
Its place in Red Rising
Dark Age is book 5 in the Red Rising series. It follows Iron Gold. It is followed by Light Bringer. See the full Red Rising reading order.
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in a brutally stratified solar-system society, born to mine helium-3 beneath Mars so that the ruling Golds can terraform the surface his people are told doesn't exist yet. When his wife is executed for a minor act of rebellion, Darrow is recruited by an underground resistance, surgically and genetically transformed to pass as a Gold, and sent to infiltrate the ruling class from within its most brutal proving ground: a war-games academy where students kill each other…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425285961
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781432859992
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425285954