Random House Publishing Group
Featuring: Darrow; Eo
400 pages ISBN: 0345539796 EAN: 9780345539793 Kindle: B00CVS2J80 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Mars and mining are the setting, and it's not an easy life.
The miners live in poverty, men working from the age of
thirteen, the girls on short rations if they don't marry
aged fourteen. They mine helium three to aid the
terraforming process and enable others to someday live on
the surface of the planet. In RED RISING, Darrow who is
young and rash enough to take risks in the hope of a
performance bonus, is married to little Eo, and they are
Red clan, miners and silkworkers. Orange are Technical
workers, Yellow are doctors, Obsidian are soldiers and Gold
are at the head of society. It's hard to improve your life
when you don't have enough to eat and a terrorist group
called Sons of Ares are trying to bring change through
violence.
Supply ships from Earth bring goods to the colony but they
are not shared equally and competitive Gamma usually wins
the bonus. Darrow cuts all the corners he can, but then
realises that his clan will never be given a bonus, they
are just used as slaves. He's not even allowed to walk with
Eo in a garden. Rescued from a death sentence by the
rebels, he is shown daylight for the first time and sees
that cities, gardens and wealth already adorn the surface -
all his people have been fed lies. Terraforming is
complete, and his people just make others richer.
Pierce Brown has built a world somewhat like Brave New
World with its castes, added gravity boots and biometric
suits, set it down in the Valles Marineris and let it run.
As Darrow explores this new world, so do we, learning about
aboveground society and the infighting and concerns of the
Gold families, the testing games to see who are worthy to
be leaders. This is at times quite a violent tale which is
aimed at adults rather than young people, and many science
fiction fans will enjoy the setting. Pierce Brown ends RED
RISING with
the capacity to develop the Martian scenario further and
continue the tale into a series.
Darrow is a miner and a Red, a member of the lowest caste in
the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds,
he digs all day, believing that he and his people are making
the surface of the planet livable for future generations.
Darrow has never seen the sky.
Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood
and sweat will one day result in a better future for his
children.
But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he
discovers that humanity already reached the surface
generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread
across the planet. Darrow and Reds like him are nothing more
than slaves to a decadent ruling class.
Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory
of lost love, Darrow joins a resistance group in order to
infiltrate the ruling class and destroy society from within.
He will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even
if it means he has to become one of them to do so
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