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Red Rising · Book 2

Golden Son

by Pierce Brown
Published
6 January 2015
Pages
464
ISBN-13
9781470380410
Type
novel
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About this book

Golden Son, the second book in Red Rising, published in 2015, pushes Darrow deeper into the Gold ruling class he's infiltrating, as the political stakes and betrayals of Pierce Brown's caste-system space opera keep escalating. At 464 pages, it continues the first trilogy's singular focus on Darrow's rise.

Key facts about Golden Son

Pierce Brown wrote Golden Son, a novel on our list. It has been out since 6 January 2015. The book has 464 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781470380410 to find the main one.

Golden Son is book 2 of 7 in the Red Rising series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Red Rising (2014). Light Bringer is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 25 July 2023.

That series sits on our science fiction shelf. Meanwhile, Light Bringer is the latest published Pierce Brown book on file, from 25 July 2023.

About Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown is an American science fiction author best known for the Red Rising saga, a class-war epic set in a brutally stratified solar-system society where a subjugated "Red" miner named Darrow infiltrates the ruling "Gold" elite to bring the system down from within. See every Pierce Brown book in order.

Its place in Red Rising

Golden Son is book 2 in the Red Rising series. It follows Red Rising. It is followed by Morning Star. 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…

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