'Iron Gold' is mature science fiction existing within the frame of blazing space opera. And while a lesser author would've just kept things rolling, running his Good Guy straight into battle and victory, Brown ain't no lesser author. The last book, Morning Star, was Darrow at his peak, smashing the forces of his enemies, becoming not just a hero, but a legend. We've had his rise to power and his wars. It is his crux book - the point at which his series (already nearly 2,000 pages long) has to do something new (sound familiar, sci-fi fans?).

Even his peaceful ones probably have a snake hidden somewhere.īut his newest, Iron Gold, is something else. I have loved with a nerd's glee every one of these books - and loved them even more for their absolute, over-the-top ridiculousness, their soap opera plots and Brown's unapologetic love for cranking everything to 11, all the time, forever.

EventuallyĪnd if it sounds like I'm being sly here, or mocking, I am absolutely not. There are a hundred characters, all with goofy names like Victra, Cassius or The Jackal, and a hundred battles, all reading like your most fevered science fiction daydreams come true on the page.īook Reviews 'Morning Star' Brings 'Red Rising' Trilogy To An End. Tales of war and honor and betrayal and regret grafted (somehow, nearly impossibly) onto an almost childishly simple frame of space Romans waging pew-pew laser gun fights over who gets to be Grand Poobah of the solar system or whatever.Īnd look, if you're not a fan - if you're coming cold to this strange place - then I can't even begin to explain to you the epic that Brown has already crafted. If you're already a fan of Brown's books (and you should be), you're already accustomed to the complex, layered, incredibly human-scale stories he's been telling for the past few years. Just one final epic battle, right? Then victory, sweet and eternal. Venus is all that remains now - stronghold of the Ash Lord, last vestige of the old order. go with it) have been won at the cost of a million lives. Mars and Earth and Luna have been freed from the imperial control of the Gold ruling caste. In Pierce Brown's Red Rising universe, the rebellion begun by slaves three books ago, then carried into the stars by slaves become heroes, become gods, become myths, has nearly been won. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Iron Gold Author Pierce Brown

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