Pierce Brown, born in 1988, is an American science fiction author whose career has been one sustained act of world-building: the Red Rising saga. It opened with Red Rising in 2014 and has marched on through Golden Son (2015), Morning Star (2016), Iron Gold (2018), Dark Age (2019) and Light Bringer (2023), with a six-issue prequel comic series, Red Rising: Sons of Ares, published along the way in 2015.
Committing a career to a single universe is a gamble few writers take, and the saga’s steady decade-long expansion suggests it has paid off.