Pierce Brown's 2014 science fiction novel set in a caste-divided society on colonized Mars — following Darrow, a lowborn Gold miner who infiltrates the ruling class to destroy the system from within.
Combines the dystopian political fiction of The Hunger Games with Roman mythology and Hard SF world-building in a way that makes class struggle and political revolution feel mythically resonant — becoming one of the most recommended popular SF novels in the self-improvement community.
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