Trilogy: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star
The third book in the Red Rising Saga is a bit repetitive end you can see some of the plot twists coming from miles away. But the book wasn’t a disappointment. It made for a good ending to the trilogy.
The catch? The trilogy is now pentalogy. But I’m going to end with the third book because it brings a nice ending to the story and there is only so much time I can spend binge-reading sci-fi soap operas.
Trilogy: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star
It would be hard not to spoil the first book when talking about what happened in the second, so I’ll instead talk about some aspects of the trilogy that I love.
The story doesn’t go into detail of how the science-fiction perks like terraforming, artificial gravity and their razors (light sabres) work. And so it boils down very much to a story about society and interpersonal relationships which is the most interesting part anyway.
Trilogy: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star
Red rising is what happens when you cross-bread Brave New World with The Maze Runner and the Game of Thrones. Even though the book’s concepts are not original, the way how Pierce Brown puts them together is incredibly amusing and propelled me into a two-week binge read of the whole trilogy.
In this science-fiction dystopian novel, the main hero is a kid from the lowest cast in the solar system. He’s about to stir up an uprising for a better world and for democracy which happens to be a dirty word. The whole story happens on Mars, and instead of saying more, I recommend you get the book and read it. But be warned, it’s similar to Game of Thrones addictiveness.
I’ve picked this book for two reasons. It’s my country’s classics and it’s super short. The 3 hours that it took to read R.U.R. was time well spent. If the book was any longer, I’d mind the old and rudimentary style (I guess inherent to plays).
Many of the concepts mentioned in this play are still valid today, e.g. Should we allow AI to make AI? Should robots carry guns? Can people behave cruelly to a robot without consciousness? And is it ok to replace human work force with machine learning?
I’ve never read a sci-fi quite like this. Semiosis tells a story in a way that will give you both detail and large overview of the idea.
Detail because the story is told by people (and plants) and large overview because the stories are told by different people in different generations of settlers on Pax.
The book stretched my vocabulary because there is a lot of chemistry and botanic terms that you don’t come across in literature unless it’s your field of study.