Red Rising
- Published
- 28 January 2014
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-13
- 9781470380281
- Type
- novel
About this book
Red Rising opens the saga in 2014, introducing Darrow, a Red condemned to mine helium-3 beneath Mars, whose wife's execution drives him into an underground resistance that transforms him to infiltrate the ruling Golds' brutal war-games academy. At 416 pages, it launches the first trilogy's blood-soaked space opera of revolution from the inside.
Key facts about Red Rising
Red Rising is a novel by Pierce Brown. Readers have had it since 28 January 2014. It runs to 416 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Red Rising. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781470380281 to find the main one.
Red Rising is book 1 of 7 in the Red Rising series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. 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
Red Rising is book 1 in the Red Rising series. It is followed by Golden Son. 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 9781524111465
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9788491876939
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345539793