Red Rising · Book 1
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.
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