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Dark Age

Pierce Brown

A five-POV war epic follows a fractured republic as alliances collapse and every faction fights to survive.

First published 2019 · Red Rising Saga

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Dark Age continues the Red Rising saga in a sprawling, multi-POV war narrative centered on a collapsing political order and the struggle to control its future. Darrow fights a rogue campaign, Lysander returns to the Core with his own claim to power, and Virginia works through political and criminal threats on Luna.

At the same time, Lyria is forced into an escape after being accused of treason, while Ephraim is drawn into a rescue that may offer him a path to redemption. Across these intersecting arcs, characters shift alliances, pursue survival, and face the consequences of choices made in a brutal interplanetary conflict.

The book’s narrative engine is escalation: battles, betrayals, reversals, and competing visions of order keep pushing the story toward a larger reckoning. The result is a densely layered war story where each perspective adds pressure to a broader struggle over power, loyalty, and the future of the Republic.

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Authors
Pierce Brown
First published
2019
Genres
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia, Space Opera, Young Adult, Space
Subjects
franchise:Red Rising · series:Iron Gold Tetralogy · series:Red Rising Saga · form:novel · genre:science fiction · War & Military Action Fiction · Colonization Science Fiction · Space Fleet Science Fiction · nyt:hardcover-fiction=2019-08-18 · New York Times bestseller · Imaginary wars and battles · Fiction · Planets · Interplanetary voyages
ISBN-13
9780425285954

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