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That said, the world of Red Rising is cleverly built.

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What I mean, however, is that little of Brown’s story reflects the reality of how men and women make choices and interact with each other and the wider universe. After all, no part of Space Rome is real, last I checked. Now, that may seem like a stupid objection. But reality, that fundamental Right characteristic, is totally missing in Brown’s trilogy. The feel of the books is doubly odd because, deliberately or not, Brown’s stories seem at first like they might lean Right-the chief protagonist is a heterosexual male with a keen sense of honor and duty, for example, something rarely, if ever, found in today’s young adult fiction. This creates a funhouse mirror sensibility, where lines of action and behavior become nonsensical and confused, jarring the reader out of the story on nearly every page.

The core problem is that Brown cripples his books by refracting Space Rome through Late-Stage Leftism. But, sadly, it’s all downhill after the first line, straight into the pit.

Within these books (the other two are Golden Son and Morning Star, and I read all three) are themes that could be fascinating, of hierarchy and oppression, of love and war, of duty and honor, of the price a man will pay to make his dreams real, of how our future should be organized. The author, Pierce Brown, aims to draw Space Rome in roughly A.D. “I would have lived in peace, but my enemies brought me war.” This is the attention-grabbing opening line of Red Rising, the first book in a popular young-adult science fiction trilogy, published between 20.