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All men are not created equal. History has shown that life is a survival of the fittest, and in the futuristic world of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising that fact is as true as it has ever been, the implications of which have been repeated in power struggles through human history. But is it a case that all men are not created equal or a case that there is just not a level playing field? Pierce Brown’s stunning SF Red Rising trilogy took mankind’s propensity for power to the stars, to the colonisation of the planets and moons of our solar system, where the inequalities between the social classes is even more apparent. In this society each individual belongs to a colour caste, with the Golds the ruling aristocracy at the top and the working class miners of the Reds on Mars at the bottom. One’s colour is built into one’s genetic make-up and there is no way of rising between colours. Everyone knows their place, and in case they don’t the rules are ruthlessly enforced. One man however, Darrow, a ...