Red Rising · Book 2
Golden Son
- Published
- 6 January 2015
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9781470380410
- Type
- novel
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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781713568551
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9786053437185
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345539823