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- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
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- Behind the scenesOver 110 rejections
Before his debut, Pierce Brown was turned down by more than 110 literary agents and wrote six novels nobody bought. This was the one that stuck.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesWritten above the garage
Brown wrote the book in about two months in a room above his parents' garage in Seattle. When it came out, he was working as an NBC page in Burbank.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesIt started with Darrow
Brown says he started with the main character and built the world around him. For the Reds, he drew on 19th-century Irish immigrants and disenfranchised workers.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe death that bugged the author
Brown admits Pax's death was capricious and bothered him. But he needed to show who the Jackal is in Book 1, and he chose to leave Darrow without House Telemanus to shelter him.
source ↗ - ReferenceFans who howl
Fans of the series call themselves Howlers, after the crew Darrow builds at the Institute.
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- Behind the scenesThe readers' pick
It debuted at No. 6 on the New York Times best-seller list and won the 2015 Goodreads Choice Award for science fiction.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesStraight A
Entertainment Weekly gave it an A and called it gripping. Publishers Weekly, which had panned the first book, praised the battles and the ending.
source ↗ - SetupRemember the boy
Lysander, Sovereign Octavia's grandson, shows up here as a kid. Keep the name in mind.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe Sons of Ares in comics
Dynamite's Red Rising: Sons of Ares (2017) is a prequel comic about the rebel group. Six more issues followed in 2020.
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- Behind the scenesStraight to No. 1
It debuted at No. 1 on both the New York Times and USA Today lists and won the Goodreads Choice Award for science fiction.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe most ambitious
In August 2015, on his second draft, Brown was already calling it the trilogy's most ambitious book. Kirkus called it an ambitious and satisfying conclusion to a monumental saga.
source ↗ - ReferenceNot the end
The month it came out, February 2016, Brown announced a sequel series starting with Iron Gold.
source ↗ - SetupThe last reveal
The book's final surprise is Pax, the son Virginia secretly had with Darrow. That comes back later.
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- Behind the scenesThere weren't supposed to be more
Brown hadn't planned more books, but he saw plenty of story in the chaos after an empire falls, especially around the Ash Lord.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe book's question
The theme, in Brown's words: "What is better, rule and order or chaos and freedom?"
source ↗ - ReferenceFour voices
The trilogy was all Darrow. Here Lysander, Lyria and Ephraim join in, because Brown wanted more castes to have a voice.
source ↗ - ReferenceIron Gold
The title refers to the original Gold conquerors, whom Brown describes as tougher and more brutal than their descendants.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesBest-seller debut
It debuted at No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list.
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- Behind the scenesThe saga's giant
At 784 pages in hardcover, it's the longest book in the series.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTitle came early
The title was announced in February 2018, right after Iron Gold came out. The story also picks up right where that book ends.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesA trilogy that grew
In 2016 the sequel series was announced as a trilogy. It grew to four books, and this is the second.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesBest-seller list
It debuted at No. 4 on the New York Times best-seller list.
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- Behind the scenesA four-year wait
Dark Age came out in July 2019 and Light Bringer not until July 2023, the longest wait in the series up to then.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesWorth the wait
It hit No. 2 on the New York Times hardcover list, placed second in the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards for science fiction and made Barnes & Noble's best-of-the-year list.
source ↗ - ReferenceWhere the title comes from
Lightbringer is the name Lysander gives the Morning Star, Darrow's old flagship.
source ↗ - ReferenceOne more to go
The next and final book of this phase is Red God. As of March 2026, Brown was still writing it, with the manuscript past 1,000 pages, and there's no release date.
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