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Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown, and the first book and eponym of a series. The novel, set in the future on Mars, follows lowborn miner Darrow as he infiltrates the ranks of the elite Golds. Red Rising has received generally positive reviews. It has been seven hundred years since mankind colonized other planets. The powerful ruling class of humans has installed a rigid, color-based social hierarchy where the physically superior Golds at the top rule with an iron fist. Sixteen-year-old Darrow is a Red, a class of workers who toil beneath the surface of Mars mining helium-3 to terraform the planet. He and his wife Eo are captured after entering a forbidden area and are arrested. While Eo is publicly whipped for her crime, she sings a forbidden folk song as a protest against the Reds' enslavement. She is subsequently hanged on the orders of Mars' ArchGovernor. Darrow cuts down and buries his wife's body, a crime for which he is also han

Red Rising - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2014 dystopian novel by Pierce Brown Red Rising First edition cover Author Pierce Brown Audio read by Tim Gerard Reynolds ( Recorded Books ) Various ( GraphicAudio ) Language English Genre Science fiction Publisher Del Rey Books (US) Publication date January 28, 2014 Publication place United States Media type Print (hardcover) E-book Audiobook Pages 382 ISBN 0-345-53978-8 Followed by Golden Son   Red Rising is a 2014 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Pierce Brown . I

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