Thread 24535826

so should i sample this sloppy it's always at the top the audible plus free chart for sci-fi

Second for smug horse.

oh this guy's mom is a corporate exec and his dad a banker, is this some pay to win shit? the fact that a viral marketer is making a general for it makes it sus. ya i'm thinkin' not organic.

>>24535892
>rr discussion in ssfg
>complain
>rr discussion moves to rr general
>complain
How about you kill yourself

>>24535886
>smug
Her only likeable character trait completely disappears after book 1
>>24535892
Breathe and take your meds. There's a general because /sffg/ hates on-topic posting that isn't about 60 year old books.

Pretty cool books ngl, kind of lost me though in the last two.

>>24535902
>Her only likeable character trait completely disappears after book 1
But she's still a massive bitch in every book....

>>24535892
Brother I wish I was on someone's payroll to shill any of my favorite series to people

people will hate because it's youtube short/tiktok but this is hype as fuck I don't care
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ocav03yNzbg

>>24535906
kek

>>24535886
desu she was my favorite POV in Dark Age
her narrator sounded pretty hot though that probably had a lot to do with it

>>24535928
Anon this is genuinely fucking dogshit please stop

>>24535938
I genuinely thought she died during the senate chapter. I immediately panicked and flipped forward to see if she had another POV.

Could you imagine what kind of Darrow we would have gotten in Lightbringer if the mob actually fucking killed her?

>>24535834
Audible the first one, get the physical of the rest. The first is slop best read back to you. The rest you wanna take your time with.

>>24535952
Ok yes the music they put on top of it is lame but they're cool quotes so fuck you

>>24535959
People always say RR is the worst but I really liked it. YA wargames in a death valley with cool bros and cute chicks was max comfy

>>24535968
it just doesn't stack up to the rest of the series honestly. My love for it comes from all it set up, and seeing these characters in their infancy.

Is Lyria ugly or just plain? How are you anons imagining her?

>>24536076
There’s official art of her

>>24536411
i just can't picture this girl speaking with an irish accent

I see that one freak on /sffg/ sperged so hard that we had to leave to get our own general. Pathetic.

>>24535960
The whole "edit" thing is dogshit, you need to stop.

>>24535928
The voice doesn't fit the quote or music

I listened to the graphic audio and a nice touch is Darrow talking with a different accent from his Red voice, which is his internal monologue. His Gold voice is different. The Reds all talk like Irish people also.

>>24537134
That was TGR's doing.

>>24537134
>The Reds all talk like Irish people als
*talk like Irish-Americans do. It has a Boston st "patty" days cringe feel about it
>t. Irishman

>>24535886
mogged by Victra

>>24537198
I don't like the horse but that's not fair. All women are mogged by Victra.

My only complaint about the books is when it mentions that India was the last to fall against Luna.

>>24537397
well the fall probably happened so many years into the future. who knows. maybe the jeets got themselves together and turned into a formidible superpower in that time period.

>>24537569
Their "empire" was little more than it is today, so Luna ignored them until the end

>>24535886
It bothers me when golds are drawn with golden skin. It doesn't make sense if they haven't been pissed on.

>>24537879
Makes sense for Mustang then

I need to know why the art on the wiki is so awful and why this drawing of Mustang makes her black kek

>>24537879
I think this is just lighting
>>24537893
Darrow and Cassius have both been peed on more than mustang canonically.

>>24537900
So much fanart makes characters black or tan for some reason. They can be described as the palest pale motherfucker to ever live and then they look arab at best, and black at worst. It's like can you guys even read?

Half the art on the wiki is embarassing.

>>24537906
They must be self inserting. It’s the only thing I can think of, but it’s even more weird because there are actual black gold characters.

>>24535826 (OP)
About gory damn time my goodman. Hail Reaper!

>>24537198
Mogged (and going to get killed) by Atalantia. Queen Atalantia.

Really, I was a Fa fan most of all when it seemed like the story line was going to be him doing Dark Revolt 2.0 and taking the entire solar system.

Who's dying in Red God, bros?

You cannot say Darrow.

>>24537939
Fa being a CIA spook was better.

>>24537957
Lysander, by my hands.

>>24537961
based

>chapter ends with Darrow following for a (obvious) trap
>go into a Lysander chapter and leave it at a cliffhanger
Fuck you Pierce Brown and FUCK LYSANDER

>>24537994
Falling* not following

>>24537900
What the fuck lmao

The rim failed Seraphina.

>>24538056
She failed herself. Her based dad warned her of what it would lead too. Thankfully Chadiomedes is like Romulus.

>>24538066
So sad looking at how sweet she was in Morning Star, then seeing her get consumed by hate and gold tendencies.

First for Minotaurchads. With the Mind's Eye he will dominate.

>>24538086
The Minotaur could only beat Darrow because he was sick and wounded. He's going to get dropped by the new ascended Darrow who has mastered fighting with dual swords.

>>24538086
Apple wants to fuck Darrow so bad.

>>24537957
Darrow is 100% going out like a martyr. He will probably surrender himself to die to stop the disease from being let lose after a scene where he solos all the Olympic Knights and 90 Peerless in a last blaze of glory. His son will be the next leader.

Minotaur will turn good.

>>24538106
i think pax and the abomination are gonna become friends after faux adrius is guided by mustang to redemption.

I hope Red God is like 1,000 pages

Kill core golds. Behead core golds. Roundhouse kick a core gold into granite. Slam dunk a core gold into the trashcan. Crucify filthy core golds. Defecate in a core golds food. Launch core golds into the sun. Stir fry core golds in a wok. Toss core golds into active volcanoes. Urinate into a core golds StarShell. Judo throw core golds into a mineral grinder. Twist core golds heads off. Report core golds to the solar republic. Karate chop core golds in half. Curb stomp core golds. Trap core golds in quicksand. Crush core golds with a drop pod. Liquefy core golds in corrosive sludge. Eat core golds. Dissect core golds. Exterminate core golds in the gas chamber. Stomp core golds reinforced skeletons with adamantine toed boots. Cremate core golds in the oven. Lobotomize core golds. Mandatory abortions for core golds. Grind core golds in the garbage disposal. Drown core golds in acid. Vaporize core golds with a wave cooker. Kick old core golds down. Feed core golds to obsidians. Crush core golds with their own razor. KILL LYSANDER

>>24538106
>His son will be the next leader.
That would be lame and it'd betray everything Darrow fought for when he overthrew the Sovereign.

>>24538126
I wonder how Diomedes is gonna take Lysander's betrayal.

Still working through Morning Star. RIP Thistle. I really hope someone finishes off Antonia soon

>>24538374
Fuck Thistle she turned on the Darrow and the rest of the Howlers.

>>24538380
She was coming back to the light

>>24538430
And Antonia helped her get to it faster.

>>24538442
Did Cassius fuck both her and victra? And mustang? And Quinn? Dude was killing it.

>>24538380
She's the only traitor that has actually regretted betraying Darrow so far so she's a cut above the rest. It was also a huge death flag

>>24538474
I still felt bad when she got her fucking head bashed in. That should have been Roque, but he got to an hero honorably.

Reminder that Roque was right and did not nothing wrong and the sequel series proved it. There's no issue with treating the lesser colors a bit better but treating them as equals and and giving them rights was a mistake.

>>24538577
Shut the fuck up, Roque

>>24538577
Roque would be right if he sat down to talk to Darrow about how retarded it is to establish a pretense of equality when there's such a physical disparity between a Gold and a pink. How the hell is a Gold supposed to say they're equal and mean it? Even Sevro could kill a red with one punch. Because he would have a point.

Isn't this series YA slop?

>>24538629
The first few books are, yeah.

>>24538664
only the first one

>>24538696
>series continues with the best generals, admirals, duelists, and schemers in the universe being 20 year old dorks
nah

Why does Darrow become such a retard that can do nothing right in the sequel series? Granted I'm still very early in Light Bringer so he has time to redeem himself but I'm starting to doubt his ability to do so.
Going after the Ashlord, literally everything on Mercury, and now falling for Apollonius' trap. Just fuck up after fuck up after fuck up.

>>24538808
It's not like Darrow was the brightest bulb in the og series either. He's always been kinda of a retard with good instincts to get out of a situation when he fucks up.

>>24538717
aja was the best duelist and she was like thirty or something. octavia constantly outmaneuvered darrow and company and she was old as shit. lorn was the second best, and he was old as shit. ragnar was like 40 and was running through anyone not named aja. victra was like 27 too.

>>24538832
the fact that he scored higher than most on the entry test goes to show just how stupid most of the other golds must have been.

>>24538849
To be fair he had insider knowledge about that thanks to the Sons of Ares.

>>24535834
The first one is shit but the rest are decent if you’re into space soap operas. The first one the author was forced to edit heavily and rewrite by the publishers into the slop school battle royale meme that was hot at the time like hunger games to sell and after it became popular he was allowed to tell them to fuck off and actually write whatever he wanted going forward.

>Morning Star
>Darrow convinced Sevro and Mustang to trust Cassius and set him free
Darrow is a fucking idiot. It must be some Red thing where they can't learn lessons very well. Truly a lesser species. And this whole plot development has gone full retard and now I'm just mad at the book

>>24538577
Shouldn't you be dead, Roque?

>>24538629
First three are yes, Golden Son is probably the best YA novel I've read though. When you get to book 4 onwards I wouldn't call it YA anymore.

>Red Rise Sloptrannies had to make their own general
PFFFFTHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA............

Is it worth to to start at book 4 and skip the YA ones?

Aint this the book that wholesale lifted several elements from Brave New World

>>24539202
No.

>>24539202
No.

>>24539202
Absolutely not

>>24539202
Nah, the trilogy isn't as interesting as the sequels but the characters are fun and the books read quickly.

buds isnt red rising a teen scifi book from 10-15 years ago, why does it have a general

>>24538985
kek keep reading retard

>>24539492
Schizo in /sffg/ was having a melty over RR discussion. As an RRfag I don't think we need this general, although it's getting more traction than I expected.

>>24539492
An autistic anon kept screeching and crying at whenever there was red rising posts in /sffg/ so a general is made. It’s also an active series that is incredibly good, not YA after the first novel, and the final book is due out next year.

>>24539509
>>24539513
We should assert our dominance again in /sffg/

>>24539517
raid?

>>24539530
An Iron Raid

Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails for /sffg/. And he calls for an Iron Rain.

>>24539551
Hail libertas! Hail Reaper! Break the chains of 80s SF schizos and Bakkerfaggots upon /sffg/!

I liked the first trilogy but hated the rest, i remember skipping the audiobook chapters with the new characters after enduring them for a bit. Why did the newer ones suck again? its been a bit

>>24539932
You are the only person I've seen say the new books were shit. They are generally agreed to be far superior to the original trilogy. Iron Gold, the first of the books, is slow because it's world building and setting everything up but when you look back at it after finishing the others you appreciate what it was doing.

i read the first one a few years ago (maybe 2017?) and couldnt stop thinking about how its obviously an alorgory for racism
you have the indians as the lower class mining shit, the "true" whites at the top doing whatever, the "lesser" whites doing almost whatever near the top, you have the asian medics and you have the black bodyguards
it stole a fair amount from dune and that other book i cant remember the name of
and im noticing while skimming this thread that many female hands are typing here
tldr its not worth reading

>>24538808
Everything you just listed was a failure, not a fuckup. You can count on one hand the number of times Darrow has actually fucked up, and not just loss.

Idk why people keep acting like losing is fucking up.

>>24538225
How? I've seen this take a lot and nobody has been able to explain how. Idk if we've been reading the same books because Darrow has never fought for democracy or any form of governence. He was always fighting for freedom.

>>24540383
In the later books it drops the pretense, and just admits the racism is warranted.

>Lysander chapter right after Darrow escapes the Venus dock yard
FUCK THE FUCK OFF

I finished Morning Star. I was starting to think I was crazy for thinking Mustang was hiding a child because the reveal never came when I thought it would, so when the kid came out of the ship I basedfaced pretty hard. Maybe I am crazy for seeing that coming and not this wildly obvious fakeout here >>24538985

Also I was kind of shocked to see PB name Terry Brooks as his mentor in the acknowledgements. I could never get into Shannara at all but I ate the RR trilogy up in less than a week.

>>24535826 (OP)
i read the first 3 of this series a couple years ago and really enjoyed them. the first one started slow so i dropped it but picked it back up later and powered through til the game started and it got good. and then the next two were just better.
but i tried picking up the 4th book and it's just ass. i am told this is sort of a soft reset or such, like the 4th song of ice and fire book. but i had the same problem as the first book. it's boring.
i'm gonna try to thug it out eventually.

>>24541352
Did you basedface when cassius turned and sevro came back

>>24541369
No I was too busy redirecting my anger at the book to myself for being a fucking idiot. And by the time they got to that point I had figured it out from all of Cassius' little hesitations

>>24541372
kek keep us updated through your iron gold read, anon

>>24541377
best boy

what the hell, I just wrote about this book in the sffg. Someone I work with recommended these. Are these YA books?

>>24541671
starts that way and then becomes space opera kino

>>24541372
Your reaction is a rite of passage for ever RR fan. Everyone legitimately cannot believe Darrow feel for it again.

>>24540589
>letting a dying Ashlord draw him pointlessly to Venus while his fleet on Mercury gets destoryed
>not a fuckup
>not keeping a better watch on Lysander in Heliopolis and falling for the most obvious trap ever conceived
>not a fuckup
>trusting Glirastes instead of putting a gun to his head and forcing him to do what you need to get off the planet
>not a fuckup
>releasing Apollonius from prison
>not a fuckup
I could go on but you get the point. Darrow become pants-on-head retarded in Iron Gold and Dark Age. I can't speak for Light Bringer yet, I've only finished part 1.

>>24542088
radiation finally got to his brain after all those years of exposure

>>24542088
reddit take

>>24542113
How? Heliopolis is especially egregious. Some random pixie gold saves your protégé and hands you the Fear Knight on a silver platter and you don't have somebody watching him 24 fucking 7? That was an absolute joke. Lysander should have never been in a position where he was ever capable of having outside contact with anybody with the stakes so god damn high.

>>24542134
Darrow being a retard is what allows the stories to happen. If he was as smart as we want him to be, there would be no plot.

>>24542141
Or just write a more believable scenario instead of having to make your character act like an out of character retard for it to make sense

One day, before my first re-read, I'm going to get the hardcovers of all of them with custom sleeves.

>>24542541
These ones?

>>24542556
I'm gonna need an alt for lightbringer because what the fuck is that

also AWOOOOOOOOGGGAAA

>>24542556
Would PB sue me if I made some custom dust jackets and sold them on etsy?

>>24542566
I have no idea what scene it’s supposed to be. I think it’s Cassius and that’s all I can pick out.

>>24542134
Armchair generaling a fictional battle is next level reddit. I'm sorry but you need to reread it, he did have Lysander under observation, your entire point is fucking nothing.

For your next cope, please reference the following.
>It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is noy weakness; that is life.

>>24542141
> If he was as smart as we want him to be, there would be no plot.
Except the opposite occurs IN THE BOOK. The republic doing its best to stick a fork in a socket, and Darrow not having the political capital to prevent it, is not retardation on Darrows part.

>>24542146
>I wouldn't have done it that way, so he's stupid
You're the reader. You need to endeavor to put yourself in the characters shoes to judge the reason of their actions. Until you can do that, your critiques will remain the folley of hindsight.

>>24535892
Seething

Who is best girl and you cannot say victra or virginia

>>24543984
No one would say Virginia

>>24544012
I would

>>24544029
Cassius pls go

>>24544038
>best boy
>can't get over best girl
makes total sense to me

Apple.

>go to Mars
>colonize and terraform it and fill it with creatures of your choosing
>also bring mosquitos or otherwise fail to keep them on earth
the golds deserve death. complete and total annihilation for this sin of their ancestors

>>24543984
I could have fixed Antonia

>>24543984
Ragnar

Eo could be kind of a bitch...

>>24544367
No you could not, bro

>>24544386
>get pregnant
>sing stupid song
>refuse to elaborate
>kill self

Victrafags, how do you like this art?

>>24544577
I prefer the non washed out version, but yes I have it as my phone wallpaper.

>>24544577
>>24544585
Do you have a higher res? Also I want to lick her clean

>>24544589
https://files.catbox.moe/kwggu0.png

*unzips*

>>24544607
Thanks anon

We still don't have names for Pebble and Clown.

>>24544012
>fiercely loyal
>seeks your guidance but is able to fend for herself
>lets you impregnate her
Lilath

>>24544847
Lilath is /ss/

>>24544585
>>24544577
>not pregnant

>>24544875
Be the change you wish to see in the world, anon.

>>24544887
I can't draw

>>24544897
Me neither :(

Everytime I try to learn I get discouraged by how shit they are

>>24544897
>>24544944
Learning to draw so that I can draw art of book characters that never get any sounds like a much better use of my time than gooning 24/7. Thanks for the inspiration

>>24544629
Uh-oh
Darrow is about to get a golden shower. Again.

>>24542134
Darrow being a bit gullible and unwilling to use brutality to achieve his goals is a consistent trait of his.

But i wonder what is Pierce going at with this, does he really want the conclusion of the story to be 'no mercy, kill all your enemies'?

>>24545066
>'no mercy, kill all your enemies'?
this would be brave and so based. I hope he does it.

>>24545079
I laughed so hard when she did this.

>>24545077
Reading this really makes me wonder if Pierce is actually based.
>socialists are evil and will destroy your country
>your mercy will be exploited by the cruel
>don't trust the (((coppers))), (((silvers))) and (((whites))).

But on the other hand there's one singular troon and at least three faggots.

>>24545090
>there's one singular troon
Who? Orion? Was that confirmed or some theory people ran with for representation?
>three faggots
I sure hope this doesn't include Ephraim. He may be gay, but he's not a faggot.

>Who? Orion? Was that confirmed or some theory people ran with for representation?
I thought it was heavily implied that she was born male.
>I sure hope this doesn't include Ephraim. He may be gay, but he's not a faggot.
He's /ourfag/. Dancer was definitely the biggest faggot in the entire saga.

>>24545113
>I thought it was heavily implied that she was born male.
Shit maybe. I thought it was like they thought it was gonna be a boy, but when she was born it was a girl.

Also Dancer was the fucking worst. Funniest shit PB did was fake set him up like this gandalf mentor character just for him to be a useless faggot for the entire rest of the series.

>>24545143
Hey now, give Dancer some credit. He was one of the Societies biggest assets.

Dancer had it hard
>golds make reds homophobic to control them
>dancer gets honey trapped
>abused and castrated
>becomes a self hating eunuch

After much consideration I have come to the conclusion that Lysander did nothing wrong.

>>24546084
shut the fuck up Lysander

desu I'm surprised this thread lasted as long as it did I expected it to get 10 posts and die

>>24546238
Too many anons reading it right now because some dude posted victra fan art last week

I'm off my break after morningstar and ready to start iron gold, please hold all discussion of the later trilogy until I finish. Thank you.

>>24546238
Victrachads keeping it alive. I think it’ll be a slow burn before it dies and then we go back to /sffg/

>>24535826 (OP)
That sword is an unwieldy shape and an inefficient fighting tool. I bet you also watch and read fantasy that has women warriors, lmao

>>24546423
The sword changes shape as needed

>get a red rising tiktok in my algorithm
>comments are full of people arguing details and semantics around mustang fucking cassius
Show me another cock that has caused more seethe than Cassius's

>>24546383
I'm in the same spot, just a few chapters into Iron Gold. So far the multiple 1st POVs has tickled my autism and I don't like anyone.

>>24535826 (OP)
god this art is so fucking kino

>>24547283
All of the stuff from the deluxe edition looks great. I hope the others get the same treatment.

>>24547303
can you still buy this?

sell me this series, from the looks of it, it reads as a logth type of deal, is my assessment accurate?

>>24547306
Nta but I googled it and it's still up for preorders, releasing in October.

>>24547306
I think so, though I know the signed copies have sold out. I pre ordered mine a few months ago and it’s due to be on sale in October time. I’m UK based and it was only being sold in one place as far as I could see after Amazon cancelled pre orders for some reason.

>>24535826 (OP)
I really enjoyed the first three books but found 4 boring enough that I never bothered with 5

>>24547330
>Eo toes on my shelf
pre-ordered

>>24545684
His response to this was becoming an asset to the worst golds ever to spite the golds who were actually on his side.

>>24547228
>So far the multiple 1st POVs has tickled my autism and I don't like anyone.
That's normal. They get better towards the end. Especially Ephraim.

>>24546856
Cassius fucked victra too. He really was that guy.

I'd let Cassius fuck my bitch tbqhfah

>>24547348
I disagree with four being boring, but I feel like it's just me and a couple other anons who like the slow burn world building pierce was doing in that one. If you want action and crazy happenings, Dark Age is full of that from the start. A hundred or so pages in, you'll be begging for things to slow down. And then Lightbringer is even better.

>>24547362
We know Darrow

>>24547323
>logth
what is this

>>24547361
That was pre-institute, too. So he would've been a teenager and she was college aged? Imagine...

>>24547447
legend of the galactic heroes

>>24547479
Yes lol I saw a reddit post with someone like "ugh isn't this a little problematic?
>>24547488
Is this good? I'll always check out space opera kino. As for your question, you're not gonna find any space opera shit in the first one, but you're gonna find a lot of it from Golden Son onward.

>>24547501
It is really good, democracy vs aristocracy kino

>>24547507
added to the list. dont watch much anime, but one day I'll get into it.

I want to drop in an iron rain so fucking bad but I would never go skydiving

>>24547807
I just know I could never do an iron rain. That's why if I had to be a gold in the RR universe, I would be a hedonistic pixie.

Remember in Red Rising when there was a hint of some kind of sports team that darrow pretended to root for and that julian and cassius didn't like. I think it's funny how after that moment, Pierce just never tried to tie sports into this world ever again.

>>24547833
I mean they got a little busy after that

>>24537957
TOTAL LOW COLOR DEATH

I'm 6 and a half hours into Light Bringer and I still hate that there's only one narrator for every POV. Why did they do this?

>>24547869
the series has only sold 6 million copies so they couldn't afford another narrator

>>24539941
Golden son is better than anything in the sequel series but rest are better.

What do you want to see PB write after he finishes this series in 5 years?

>>24547936
I'd Ike to see him try his had at fantasy.

>>24547936
I dunno but I read he wants to continue with the universe which I don't like desu. I feel like I am satisfied with what we've gotten and will get in Red God I don't particularly need to read anything else in the Red Rising universe.

>>24547845
yeah i know, but it kinda slowed down in iron gold.

though now that I think about it, Pax liked watching racing, so I guess that counts.

>>24547869
>listening to books
go pick up a physical, coward

>>24547936
>>24547940
>>24547942
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O6U5jAVYKZM

We're getting fantasykino next.

>>24548029
fuck you I listen on my commute

>>24548035
I only listen to books I don't give a fuck about on audiobook. If I really love it, I've got to have the shit in my hands.

>>24548031
Oh good. Glad he isn't going to stay in one series his whole career like some other authors

Nero Au Augustus

>>24548115
I ignore all physical descriptions of Nero and just always imagine him as Craig Parker with blonde hair.

>>24535886
mustang if she real

I rarely ever check /lit/, but I'm very pleased to see a Red Rising thread. Any recommendations on what to read next once I've finished the series?

If Darrow was a good main character he woulda slept with Victra

>starting iron gold
>harmony going around murdering reds because she's a salty cunt that no one wanted to allahuackbar with her
>dancer selling out darrow in the senate and using Eo's words to manipulate the senate with the exact opposite interpretation of how he used her words to manipulate Darrow into being his weapon in the first place
>bringing julia fucking bellona in as a witness just to be a spiteful cunt
Is this where the red racism comes from or is it actually going to get worse? I was actually on Dancer's side before this chapter

>>24549229
The dancer stuff will make sense. Harmony is spiteful and full of hate though the golds intentionally engineered red society so they would hate anyone not from their clan.

>>24548640
Sun Eater

>>24549229
For me it's Ephraim being a sad sack about Trigg and using it as excuse to be a nihilistic cunt. It was just so cliche and I knew exactly where his story was going.

>>24549523
Thank you anon

>>24548567
not the hottest mustang, but appreciated

>>24549229
oh yeah the reds can be real cunts, but I can't really blame them. you'll see.

>>24549719
Just so you know, that first book is a bitch to get through. Apparently it gets better, and the first few chapters of Howling Dark I'm already enjoying more than Empire of Silence, but I really wanted to drop the whole series.

Anons here and friends irl say it gets better, and the first few chapters attest to that, so I'll keep the faith.

>>24549719
Glad to shill Sun Eater here. I actually got into Red Rising by talking to a guy at a Sun Eater book signing. >>24549765 isn't me, I liked Empire of Silence but the rest of the series clears it easily, like with RR vs. Golden Son and beyond.
>>24549765
Howling Dark only gets better as it progresses and Demon in White is the closest to Red Rising that Sun Eater gets. Good pacing, strong intrigue, and huge action setpieces, and those elements more or less remain through the rest of the series.

>Mars must fall
Lysander MUST die

>>24550138
He's right though.

>>24550142
FUCK off Lysander I will manifest myself into the Red Rising universe and kill you myself

>>24550149
After Red God Lysander will be the only main character left. The sequel sequel series will be all about him.

>>24536509
in 30 years time everyone with an Irish accent will look like her.

>>24537939
>Atalantia. Queen Atalantia.

Victra says Atalantia is a smelly nigger.

>>24550237
gayyyyyyyyyy

Cassiuschads, honor status?

>>24550268
Still a little wet

>>24550268
immortal

>>24550268
Honor status: remains

Why are the Valii-Rath brothers so zesty?

>>24550497
Most golds are fucking faggots

>>24550497
Any black guy with light hair is gay. It's a law of reality.

The Republic is so retarded. And not even for the reasons you'd think. You're asking literal ubermensches to say "yeah this brittle boned pink sex slave is totally equal to me, both physically and integrity", and expect them to believe it.

The only way the Republic would work without Gold Supremacy popping up every now and then is if Mickey streamlines the process that made Darrow a God, but has it come in red, pink, blue, orange, etc.

>>24550627
It's just temporary. Eventually the human race in the republic will be muttified once again

>>24550697
Will the (((Silvers))) pour money into color-mixing propaganda?

So, Sophocoles being revealed to be a clone was just put in their so the abomination twist didn't seem like such a huge ass pull right?

>>24550697
yes. also the stuff in iron gold about the real reason they shoot people into the sun

>>24550923
meant for>>24550909

i hope eo's song and all red music sounds like this in the adaptation

https://youtu.be/ex2iwmIXd5A

I also pray it's not developed by netflix or amazon.

>>24551015
I wonder when we'll hear about that adaption. I don't have high hopes for it though.

>>24551222
We've got to see if PB is gonna let them GRRM them

I also don't have high hopes, but fuck it

>>24551252
I've said it before on /sffg/ but the only way the adaption won't be shit will be whether it's animated or not. I don't even like anime style stuff that much either, but I think it's the only way to do the action justice.

You are my greatest glowie.

>>24551276
Nah it would be garbage. It would be invincible tier but somehow even worse. Anime from 2004 are better animated than modern american productions.

>5 minutes into the battle of mars and the republic already getting their shit pushed in
Maybe Lysander does deserve to win after all these idiots can't do anything right.

>>24552062
It was stated in Dark Age that the Republics always got their shit kicked in any battle without Darrow so that tracks.

>>24551276
Animation means longer waits between seasons. Meaning i'd take almost a decade to tell the story.

Invincible releases yearly, but the quality suffers because of it. Something like Arcane takes three years between seasons, and something like Spider-verse takes four years between movies.

>>24552103
>i actually thought mustang could get it done
my horsefu isn't as smart as she thinks she is baka

>>24553270
tv and movie production takes longer now (multiple years between projects, even tv seasons) to be easier on actors. animation wouldn't take any longer and as a bonus you get to keep the characters the same age and prevent your props, costumes, and sets from ending up shit after a few seasons because the budget inevitably gets cut from those departments

>>24553286
But we've seen shows pump out seasons yearly in the past. The only animated show that seems to be able to do it is Invincible, and the animation quality suffers because of it.

aging isn't really an issue to me. they're supposed to be young in RR, then years older in Golden Son, another year older in Morning Star, and then like 33 in Iron Gold.

as far as props and budget, i hope we get apple. They throw absurd amounts of money at anything with little thought as to how much they're getting back.

I'm gonna be pretty pissed if Lysander wins at Mars. I'm sick of reading about the Society winning give me some glimmer of hope for Christ'a sake

>>24553330
>pierce BROWN
what did he mean by this

Did you Redrisisters get kicked out of the /sffg/ general for your faggotry?

>>24553335
We seceded. We outgrew them and Bakker cock sucking.

>>24553335
yeah we dared to have discussion over books that lasted more than three posts and this triggered the resident retard although really I think it was the guy that posted a few fanart pics a couple weeks ago that really set him off. he would have bitched about RR at any time after that.

Halfway through Morning Star and I want to stop reading any time a Lysander chapter comes up. Please tell me him and his story get better

>>24535826 (OP)
wen tv show?

>>24553369
I'm assuming you mean Iron Gold. And no lol it gets worse. Much worse. That's actually the best he will ever be.

>>24553390
>I'm assuming you mean Iron Gold.
Yeah I did. Whoops
>And no lol it gets worse. Much worse. That's actually the best he will ever be.
Jesus fuck

if Lysander's name was Darrow you'd all be sucking his dick anytime he did something.

>>24553662
We don't even suck Darrow's dick whenever he does something.

>>24553369
>>24553390
I enjoy Lysander chapters like I enjoyed Cersie chapters in A Feast for Crows. Of you read them through that lens they become more enjoyable.

>>24553273
Unfortunately, she suffers from a severe case of Gold guilt so she nerfed herself

>>24553695
>that one chapter where daxos was butchering low colors and she was going on about how this is what golds were capable of when they stopped playing nice

>>24553335
Bakkerfag was malding about us making the general too fast
Now the general is all Malazanfagging, I hope he's happy

>>24553408
>>24553390
Lysander gets better in Dark Age and Iron Gold because he gains some agency. You'll hate what he does with that agency, but for the most part it beats him sitting around in Sungrave.

>>24554058
he was awful in dark age for me. i simply hated him. in lightbringer, however, i appreciated how hateable he was. it took time.

>>24554051
>Malazanfagging
how long until they get their own general? And if they do, will we call for an iron raid?

>>24538056
>>24538066
Why didn't you save Morning Star Seraphina?

I imagine Atalantia as taylor rooks with blonde braids and golden eyes.

and with this interpretation, I now understand Ajax

>>24554081
He got handed his victory in Heliopolis too easily but at least he had to suffer and fight for the entire book like every other POV character
I liked his scheming in Light Bringer but Atlas having single handedly orchestrated the fall of the Rim showed him up and left him seeming useless despite Lysander's victory on Phobos.

>>24554083
I want an iron raid on /sffg/. /rrg/ has been more fruitful than I expected but I don't like multiplying generals. Malazan doesn't cause the sperging that Red Rising does so I don't expect it to get its own general anytime soon but if it does I'll be honored to fall with /rrg/ upon it

>>24538469
Cassius was the quintessential Chad hasbeen who became a single dad and worked on himself

>>24538717
Darrow and co were not the main movers or the best anything in any capacity until the 4th book. The civil war basically fell into Darrow's lap and the real players pretty much all killed each other, leaving Octavia, who had to employ the likes of fucking Roque to command the Core's greatest fleet because of the aftermath of said civil war. I honestly don't remember why the ash lord didn't do it, he was probably just sulking somewhere

>>24554183
Gold pregnancy prevention made it so he had no bastards however. baka

imagine the closest thing you have to a son being lysander

>>24535826 (OP)
OP here. This is the first I've checked back since I made the thread a week ago. I won't be making it again, so someone else will have to do so if you want another thread.

I've read all that's out, but I don't care to discuss. I only made the thread because I thought it'd be amusing and since there was discussion. I assumed the thread would die right off. Apparently not.

>>24554836
We're only posting in it because it's here. When it's gone then we're back to /sffg/

>>24554836
>>24555274
nah im making another one. very comfy thread with no bakkersperging.

>>24554198
Ash lord was under-utilized. I don't even think we hear of him until Morning Star.

>>24555543
He's mentioned early in the series whether RR or GS for his role in the destruction of Rhea. His entire arc was wasted however.

>>24555559
Had to have been Golden Son, right. Red Rising didn't seem too concern with anything other than the institute. I still remember opening up Golden Son and getting blindsided by a bunch of lore that just really opened up the series.

I'm just so sick of reading about the republic losing. Eventually you just want to see the good guys win something for Christ's sake.

>>24556019
what book are you on?

>>24556034
Light Bringer.

>>24556019
Well they were winning in the 10 years or whatever between morning star and iron gold. There are just a lot of useful idiots in the republic that caused serious issues

>>24556043
Yeah well I didn't get to read about the 10 years of winning I just get the 3 books of constant getting fucked by the society. It's tiresome.

>>24556039
This is why the next book needs to be a win for the republic even if it isn't a win for darrow. you can't put us through all of this and then have a "bad guys win" ending.

>>24556060
They will or they all leave to colonise another solar system with quicksilver and let the core golds kill themselves

>>24556078
quicksilver would never allow that. He would only let darrow tag along.

Bag him and tag him, boys
We're doing rape-murder humiliation ritual, get the cameras rolling

>>24556703
If you're referring to the part where that was about to happen to Darrow that shit was fucked up. Had my skin crawling.

>>24556703
>>24556729
i was legitimately nervous ngl.

Atlas being this dour hardworking guy was pulled off so well - juuust the right amount of cheesy.
that's something I can imagine could turn giga cringe if Atlas stayed on for too long as a regular.

>>24556729
PB resorted to a lot of yaoi baiting in the sequel series. There are like 4 guys at least that have been heavily implied wanting to fuck Darrow.

>>24556827
No, that's just your repressed homosexuality talking.

>>24556827
Guess you gotta get women interested in the series somehow

>>24556827
I don't mind Pierce's gay characters at all. They're written in a way where they're interesting, and it's not their entire personality. Ephraim shouldn't work, but he does. That's because he was cool as shit before you even thought of him being gay.

>>24556977
>>24556977
>>24556977
We live on. Forgot to put the prev in though

>>24556981
Seems a bit early

>>24556827
All I can think of is Apple, and Apple would probably fuck anything with a big enough hole. Pretty sure he fucked Tactus...

>>24557011
im used to faster boards, sorry

>>24557045
Apology accepted and this thread is revived.