Series
Red Rising
Pierce Brown & Rik Hoskin · 8 novels · 5 short stories · 2014–2023
Pierce Brown's Red Rising follows Darrow, a lowborn 'Red' miner on a colonized Mars who discovers his caste's suffering is a lie sustained by the ruling Gold elite, and infiltrates their ranks to destroy the system from within. The series expands from a single-protagonist revenge story into a sprawling multi-book war across the solar system, eventually following an ensemble cast beyond Darrow alone, and combines Roman-inspired factional politics with brutal, competition-driven action set pieces.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Red Rising: Sons of Ares(2 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Red Rising at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s6
- 2020s4
Shape
8 novels · 5 short stories
2 authors
reads like:science fictionrebellion and revolutionmarsfar futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 13 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Wrathdarkest · calmest
- Red Risingbrightest · most intense