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Howler Con 2023 with Pierce Brown

August 3, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm.

Welcome to HOWLERCON 2023. Part book launch and part mini con, this one-of-a-kind event is an official stop on Pierce Brown’s Light Bringer tour. A collaboration between Magic City Books and  Lit Escalates , HowlerCon 2023 will feature not only your regular book tour elements of a talk and signing, but also in true Lit Escalates fashion, a whole heap of other epic goodness.

Taste “Peerless Gold”, a Limited Edition Red Rising themed beer created for this event by the master brewer at Cabin Boys Brewery.

Listen to your very own Howler Band, the one and only  Me Like Bees .

Participate in the first ever official Red Rising Cosplay competition, Hosted by Alexis Lampley of Nerdy Ink  and judged by Howler One Himself.

Live Red Rising Screen Printing by Flash Flood Studios.

Exclusive event-only merchandise… and more!

Generously supported by the  Tulsa Artist Fellowship .

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General Entry   includes admittance to HowlerCon 2023, and 1 copy of Light Bringer .

Howler Package   includes admittance to HowlerCon 2023, 1 copy of Light Bringer , and an exclusive HowlerCon T-shirt, complete with a designated “Howler 01” patch on the left shoulder just screaming for a Pierce Brown signature.

Violet Package   includes admittance to HowlerCon 2023, 1 copy of Light Bringer , and an exclusive 11x17in Light Bringer Tour Companion Poster, designed by Joel Daniel Phillips. We can’t reveal the full image quite yet, but we can tell you that it involved Joel spending several months looking at spaceship blueprints…

Stay Gold Package  includes admittance to HowlerCon 2023, 1 copy of Light Bringer , an exclusive HowlerCon T-shirt, complete with a designated “Howler 01” patch on the left shoulder just screaming for a Pierce Brown signature, and an exclusive 11x17in Light Bringer Tour Companion Poster, designed by Joel Daniel Phillips. We can’t reveal the full image quite yet, but we can tell you that it involved Joel spending several months looking at spaceship blueprints…

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About  light bringer.

Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s  New York Times  bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to  Dark Age .

The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains.

But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend.

Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror Lysander.

Lysander longs to destroy the Rising and restore the supremacy of Gold, and will raze the worlds to realize his ambitions.

The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow, and Darrow needs the people he loves–Virginia, Cassius, Sevro–in order to defend the Republic.

So begins Darrow’s long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.

Because Eo’s dream is still alive–and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.

Pierce Brown  is the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  Red Rising ,  Golden Son ,  Morning Star ,  Iron Gold , and  Dark Age . His work has been published in thirty-four languages and thirty-six territories. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is at work on his next novel.

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THE RED RISING SAGA

From #1 New York Times bestelling author Pierce Brown, the Red Rising Saga is the story of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom. Available at   Amazon   •    B&N   •    Kobo

Numbered, Limited Editions of the Red Rising Saga are available at Subterranian Press

Red Rising is the thrilling first entry in the Red Rising Saga. Darrow has never seen the sky. He is a Red, a member of the lowly mining caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he willingly spends his life digging underground, believing his sacrifice will make the surface livable for future generations.

Then Darrow makes a horrible discovery. Humanity actually reached the surface generations ago. The Reds are slaves, in service to a decadent ruling class.

Longing for justice, driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow joins the resistance to destroy society from within. He will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies…even if he has to become one of them to do it.

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The full-cast Graphic Audio production of Red Rising is a feast for the senses. Broken into two parts, each section clocks in at 7 hours of auditory delight featuring all your favorite characters voiced individually by Graphic Audio’s inveterate performers, sound effects and cinematic music.

Golden Son continues the saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds – and their only path to liberation is revolution. He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within.

A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even love –but also the wrath of powerful rivals. To win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront treachery, overcome his desire for retribution – and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth. The road ahead is fraught with danger, and Darrow must follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people. He must live for more.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, murdered his wife and enslaved his people. Risking everything, Darrow has survived, climbing up the ranks of Society’s mightiest warriors, waiting patiently to unleash revolution. Finally, the time has come.

But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep. Darrow and his comrades face powerful enemies. To win, Darrow must inspire those shackled in darkness to break their chains, unmake the world and claim a destiny too long denied.

A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of arevolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But instead of peace and freedom,the Rising has brought endless war. Now he must risk everything for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself?

Other destinies entwine with Darrow’s: Lydia, a Red girl fleeing a refugee camp, an ex-soldier broken by grief, and Lysander au Lune, heir-in-exile to the sovereign, who wanders the stars haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes.

Outlawed by the Republic he founded, Darrow wages a rogue war on Mercury hoping he can salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?

Lysander au Lune, heir in exile, is determined to bring peace. He must overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families and face down Darrow. Meanwhile, the Soveriegn Mustang campaigns to unite the Republic, former refugee Lyria stands accused of treason, and Darrow’s children must trust their future to Ephraim the thief.

As alliances shift, break, and re-form–and power is seized, lost, and reclaimed–every player is at risk, in a game of conquest that could turn the Rising into a new Dark Age.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age . The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror Lysander. Lysander longs to destroy the Rising and restore the supremacy of Gold, and will raze the worlds to realize his ambitions. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow, and Darrow needs the people he loves—Virginia, Cassius, Sevro—in order to defend the Republic. So begins Darrow’s long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield. Because Eo’s dream is still alive—and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.

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An epic space opera with all the bloody twists and betrayal we’ve come to expect from Pierce Brown. Darrow’s journey continues in cinematic grandeur with perfectly paced action to keep you holding your breath until the final pages.

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1 Darrow Castaway Our sun floats in darkness attended by moons made of trash. Long ago, when the planets were reshaped by mankind, the detritus of their terraforming operations was fused together into moon-­sized spheres by orbital compactors and shoved out toward Sol. Gripped by the gravity of her mass, most of these trash moons have completed their centuries-­long funeral march into the nuclear fires of the sun, but several hundred laggards still remain circling their eventual demise. Tethered to the barren landscape of a forgotten trash moon once catalogued as Marcher-­1632, a shipwrecked corvette named the Archimedes hides in the shadow cast by a waste escarpment a kilometer high. Martian slaves-turned-­soldiers-­turned-­castaways crawl over the ship. Our welding torches flare against the hull. Our space suits are stinking bogs. We are marooned two hundred million kilometers from home, and I stew in sweat, nausea, and discontent. That bloodydamn Bellona. That arrogant Peerless shit. I’m going to break his knee if I ever see him again. It should be him on this hull. I’d tell him to his face, but he took the only relic in the base’s hangar that could still fly and stole off with Aurae, his Pink accomplice, while I slept. He recorded a little message telling me to tend my wounds, and left his mess behind—­his crippled ship—­for us to repair. The bastard. More than a decade separated from Olympia’s airy sepulchres has done little to dim Cassius’s spectacular talent for condescension. Worst of all, in typical Cassius fashion, he’s taking his damn time. Six weeks he’s been gone on a mission to Starhold—­an ecliptic trade post between the orbits of Mercury and Venus—­to secure us the helium we need for the Archimedes. While here I am: either languishing in the old Sons of Ares base that’s hidden in the belly of the trash moon or latched onto the side of his ship like an industrious barnacle welding the days away, knowing time is running out. Hades, it may already have run out. Cut off from communication with the outside world, I have no way of knowing the course of the war I began. No way of knowing if Virginia and Victra have managed to weather the united power of the Golds of the Rim and the Core. No way of knowing if Sefi has come back to the Republic or if Lysander has used my defeat on Mercury as a ladder to the Morning Chair. No way of knowing if the enemy has already burned Mars, my family, my home. I think of Mars and her highland moors and whispering woods . . .  No. Virginia told me to endure. I’ve been imprisoned before. I know I must force away the thoughts of home before they make debris of me. Not for the first time, I try to seek refuge in anger. I want a fight. I need a fight. It’s how I’m made—­to struggle in eternal vain. But instead of a fight, instead of the forward motion that soothes my restless nature, all I get is the monotone hum of generators and the days congealing together, a litany of endless routine. I started this war. Others are finishing it. I must escape. Atalantia must die. Atlas must die. Lysander must die. I picture them each groveling before me, my ears deaf, my hand choking the life from them as blood swells in their eyes. The violent fantasies do nothing to ease my desolation. The anger that once made planets tremble is now toothless. Shorn of my myth by my failure, shorn of my army by my mistakes, shorn of my friends and family by the demands I made on them, I know hate will not return what I have lost or repair what I have broken. The sun has raged for 4.6 billion years. I have raged for sixteen. No surprise, the sun has more fuel to spare. Even my anger at Cassius feels performative. I can’t sustain it anymore, can’t feed this endless anger at myself and everyone. Not after what I have done. I escaped Mercury with my life, but it cost me my Free Legions and what remained of my self-respect. I led children of Mars to a planet far from home promising we could finish the war, only to abandon them to the enemy to save my own hide. My heart is buried with my army in those sands. But my body trudges on, as it does, no matter the ruin it leaves in its wake. It’s been a backward slide since I fled Mercury with my small band of survivors. Cassius rescued barely two hundred of us from Heliopolis, but it was not a clean escape. Harried by Grimmus torchShips, we missed our rendezvous with the Telemanus fleet. Missed our chance home. We barely managed to limp into the base on the Marcher before Cassius took off. The silence is broken by the chatter of the other welders. One tells a joke. It’s funny enough for me to stop flagellating myself. I listen to the other voices. They remind me of the drillboys chattering in the tunnel above my clawDrill back in Lykos. Their bad jokes soothe me, and my mind wanders to the tattered book Aurae left in the helmet of my space suit before she slipped off with Cassius. The note Aurae left with it said that the book was her path through the darkness of her servitude in the Rim. I was angry after Aurae and Cassius left and nearly used the book as toilet paper. But I’ve always felt Pinks to be the most oppressed of the Colors, their plight imbuing some of them with preternatural internal strength. Evey and Theodora taught me that. So, more out of respect for them than Aurae, I read the first page. I grew annoyed by the opacity of the writing. It read like a divination book, repeating conventional wisdom in esoteric metaphors. Still, I recall a few lines that seem apt. The path is made of many stones that look all the same. When you trod upon evil, do not rest or look down because goodness is only a step away. The next may bring ruin, the next joy, but these stones are not your destination, they are but your journey to the path’s end. I mull that over as I weld a new panel onto the hull. Maybe this is just a stepping stone. Maybe this place isn’t perdition. Maybe it is a gift. Truth is I should have died on Mercury. Truth is everything after that hell is a gift, even this place. It may be tedious repairing the antique fifty-­meter corvette with only hand tools, but labor gives a man purpose, I suppose. Each panel welded a step forward. Each step forward takes me closer to my family. So long as Cassius returns with the helium we need for the reactor, and so long as Harnassus actually fixes the reactor, we will go home. Maybe I’ll read another page tonight. But I’m a stubborn bastard, so maybe not. My com crackles. “Welder twenty-­three, do you register?” I holster my torch and ease back on my security line. “Welder twenty-­three. Ignore your existential dread for a moment and do reply . . .” “Welder twenty-­three registers. What’s what, Thraxa . That rash acting up again? ” Unable to find any suits wide enough for her prodigious thighs, ­Thraxa’s stuck inside the base. Daily, the bellicose woman grumbles that she would have preferred the honorable suicide she intended to commit in Heliopolis to the daily monotony of shift management. “Sun’s on its way in thirty . Be a dear and rein your squad in before you boil in your suits.” I glance over my shoulder to the eastern curve of the trash moon. “A little early, no?” “ Archimedes ’s mass is speeding up the moon’s rotation. We all know you skipped physics, but trust me on this one or by tomorrow your prick will look like a hydra. You’re rad heavy as is.” “We can finish the hull this shift,” I say. “Next shift can finish. Aren’t going anywhere without helium and the reactor fixed anyway. Call it.” With a grumble, I agree and call my crew to end shift. The welders scurry along their safety lines back to the base as I count heads. When the last is in, I pull myself down the hull, push toward the base, and ease down to the airlock. At the rim of the airlock, I pause and do something I haven’t done in all my welding shifts. I take the time to look out over the craggy horizon. A thin scythe of sunlight carves around the trash moon. It warps the mottled surface outward with heat, inverting expansion calderas until dust and toxic gas spew. The dust and gas coalesce around a scarp of green-­black plastic before stretching out behind the moon to form a tail of shimmering particles. I have seen things a Red miner was never meant to see—­unspeakable horrors, impossible beauty. Things that would make the tail of particles seem commonplace. But today I feel a little different. A little more willing to see there’s beauty here on this stepping stone. Maybe it’s the book. Maybe it’s the radiation. Whatever it is, I feel like today I have enough strength to look the other way, past the shadowy shoulder of the Archimedes to an expanse of stars in the distance where my eyes settle on a dim, ruddy light. Home.

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Light Bringer

A Red Rising Novel

By Pierce Brown

Part of red rising series, category: science fiction.

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About Light Bringer

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age . The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from its bloodthirsty would-be conqueror Lysander. Lysander longs to destroy the Rising and restore the supremacy of Gold, and will raze the worlds to realize his ambitions. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow, and Darrow needs the people he loves—Virginia, Cassius, Sevro—in order to defend the Republic. So begins Darrow’s long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield. Because Eo’s dream is still alive—and after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope. Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga: RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER

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About Pierce Brown

Pierce Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star. While trying to make it as a writer, Brown worked as a manager of social media at a startup tech company, toiled as… More about Pierce Brown

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Praise for Dark Age “[Pierce] Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100 percent him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.” —NPR “An epic story of rebellion, social unrest, and sacrifice.” — Orlando Sentinel “Much like A Song of Ice and Fire’s George R. R. Martin, Brown is an author who is interested in exploring the consequences of his protagonist’s actions. Revolution doesn’t come without a price and no one can stay a hero forever.” — The Mary Sue Praise for Iron Gold “Complex, layered . . . mature science fiction existing within the frame of blazing space opera . . . done in a style [that] borders on Shakespearean.” —NPR “[A] thoughtful blend of action, intrigue, and prosaic human drama.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Morning Star “A page-turning epic filled with twists and turns.” — Booklist (starred review) Praise for Golden Son “In a word, Golden Son is stunning. Among science fiction fans, it should be a shoo-in for book of the year.” — Tordotcom Praise for Red Rising “[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes  The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game .” — Entertainment Weekly

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HowlerCon 2023

Welcome to HOWLERCON 2023. Part book launch and part mini con, this one-of-a-kind event is an official stop on Pierce Brown’s Light Bringer tour. A collaboration between Magic City Books and Lit Escalates , HowlerCon 2023 will feature not only your regular book tour elements of a talk and signing, but also in true Lit Escalates fashion, a whole heap of other epic goodness.

• Taste “Peerless Gold”, a Limited Edition Red Rising themed beer created for this event by the master brewer at Cabin Boys Brewery
• Listen to your very own Howler Band, the one and only Me Like Bees
• Participate in the first ever official Red Rising Cosplay competition, Hosted by Alexis Lampley of Nerdy Ink and judged by Howler One Himself. Sign up to participate here !
• Live Red Rising Screen Printing by Flash Flood Studios
• Exclusive event-only merchandise

Doors at 5:30pm / Event from 6-10pm

Generously supported by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship

Please note: If you would like to participate in the Cosplay competition, you need to sign up here  by July 15th!

TICKET PACKAGES: General Entry  includes admittance to HowlerCon 2023, and 1 copy of Light Bringer.

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It's an honor to welcome Pierce Brown to Eagle Eye Book Shop and Decatur, GA to celebrate the release of  LIGHT BRINGER ,   the next installment in the best-selling Red Rising Series! The event will be held at First Baptist Church of Decatur (308 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30033) at 7PM!

This event is ticketed, meaning a purchase of this book from our store is required to attend the talk and signing!

Eagle Eye Book Shop and Del Rey Books are proud to bring Pierce Brown to you for his first Southeastern appearance! Here are all the details for the event:

• If you have already purchased your copy of Light Bringer from us (Eagle Eye) all you need to do is show up for the event!
• The doors open at 6PM. There is plenty of on-site parking available at the church and many wonderful places to eat just steps away in downtown Decatur.
• Your purchase of Light Bringer will allow you to bring 1 (and only 1) guest with you to the event.
• Your presigned copy of Light Bringer will be available for pick up at the event, not the shop.
• If you would like your copy of Light Bringer personalized, that will happen after the talk and Q&A. You can also bring 1 (and only 1) other book to be signed. +1 guests will not be able to get any books signed.
• Any photos will be taken from the line (we will have a photographer to assist), no posed photos.
• We will have a selection of Pierce’s backlist signed and available for purchase.

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Join the Pierce Brown Book Tour for ‘Light Bringer’

Maude Garrett has been raving about Red Rising, and our book club members have loved the second book, Golden Son . This month we head back into the universe created by Pierce Brown with Morning Star, the third book in the series. It was the winner of Best Science Fiction in 2016.

MBC has had such wonderful discussions about this series so far. Garrett has interviewed Pierce Brown, and our members gave such insightful questions. Three more books are in this series, with the sixth book, Light Bringer, expected to release on July 25th.

Fortunately for Pierce Brown fans, otherwise known as “Howlers” , he is starting his book tour at SDCC on July 20th!

About the Author :

Pierce Brown was always fascinated with storytelling from a young age. He remembered the stories his grandfather would tell him, and he would listen for hours. He would tell him stories about tricksters, backwater bandits and clever outsiders. His family moved seven times before he was eighteen, and he went to more than ten schools. 

After leaving high school, he realized it was possible to be a writer. It wasn’t until one muggy summer night after high school ended that he started writing. He wrote six books in five years and received more than a hundred rejections in return. He was twenty-two and ready to give it all up. A seed was planted after he read Antigone and saw Mars all bright in the sky, a seed was planted. He took ancient Greece and added stars, spaceships, opera, Romans, twists, betrayal and blood to make Red Rising.

Pierce Brown ‘Light Bringer’ Book Tour Dates

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Regularly obsessing over pierce brown's red rising series, pierce brown shared an update on red god (and an ominous tease for a scene he’s writing).

Light Bringer came out last summer, which was months and months ago, so we’ve surely had plenty of time to recover from the events of the sixth Red Rising book … right? Ok, fine, I’m still not recovered, but that doesn’t make me any less excited for Book 7. But when is Red God ‘s release date? While we don’t have the answer to that, Pierce Brown did offer up an update on the status of Red Rising Book 7 on his Instagram stories this week.

Some (Spoiler-free) Thoughts About Light Bringer

In the process of gathering and organizing my thoughts and many feelings about Light Bringer , I’ve decided to divide them between spoilers and non-spoilers. This is the non-spoiler post. And when I say non-spoiler, I mean no specific details about what happens in the book. But I am going to be talking about general impressions, so if that’s more than you want to know about the book before you read it, now’s your chance to back out!

One Month To Go Until Light Bringer’s Release

It’s June 25th, and that means we’re officially one month away from the arrival of Light Bringer , the sixth — but not the final — book in the Red Rising saga, releasing on July 25, 2023 . Now seems like a good time to do a roundup of the Light Bringer events that I’ve seen coming up. As many Howlers likely know, there are some prime things happening or in the works, leading up to and in the days following the release of Pierce Brown’s new book. So let’s get to it!

Pierce Brown’s Red Rising: Sons Of Ares Vol. 3 Forbidden Song Graphic Novel Releases This Year

To say that my to-be-read list for 2023 is looking both exciting and a bit daunting would be an understatement, especially when I factor in my goal to reread all five Red Rising books before Book 6 — titled Light Bringer — makes its grand arrival later in the year. And now it looks like I’ll need to add a reread of the first two Sons of Ares graphic novels to my TBR list as well, as Volume 3 is expected to arrive this year.

Happy New Year, Howlers! We certainly have som exciting things to look forward to in 2023!

Red Rising Book 6 – Light Bringer Gets A New Release Date And A Cover Reveal

This week, Pierce Brown revealed the cover for Light Bringer ( Red Rising Book 6). Alas, with that bit of good news, the less good news is that we’ll be waiting just a bit longer for Light Bringer to hit shelves in 2023. It is still expected to arrive next year, but rather than the original May 2023 release date, the sixth novel in the Red Rising series will be arriving on July 25th.

Red Rising Book 6 Title Revealed And Book 7 Announced

Well, there’s good news and even more good news, Howlers! As expected, Pierce Brown delivered a big announcement today. When he teased some upcoming news , I hoped it might involve the title and maybe some information about when Book 6 might be coming, and sure enough, it did. But this news also apparently involves a seventh book. Yes, Red Rising Book 7! Not only does Book 6 have an official title (and is expected to arrive May 2023), but according to Pierce Brown’s announcement, Book 7 is also on the way. So let’s get to the details:

Red Rising Book 6 News Is Coming (and soon, from the sound of it)

A Red Rising Book 6 announcement is coming, Howlers! A few months ago, Pierce Brown hinted that “announcements” were coming in July. More recently, he specified that Book 6 news was coming on July 22nd, which just so happens to be the same day the Red Rising author is set to appear at San Diego Comic-Con. In fact, based on the schedule for the event, it looks like he’ll have his very own panel at the convention. Before we get to that…

Pierce Brown Shared A New Update On Red Rising Book 6

In a few months, it’ll be two years since Dark Age arrived. Since Red Rising Book 5’s July 2019 debut, fans have eagerly awaited the next installment to the series. Today, Pierce Brown shared an update on his progress with the yet-to-be-titled Red Rising Book 6. From the sound of it, taking the right steps forward in the writing process required taking a few steps back. Or about two-hundred pages back, based on what the author said in a recent Instagram post. 

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Scott D. Pierce Dies: Veteran TV Critic For Salt Lake City Tribune, TCA President Was 64

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Scott D. Pierce , who wrote about television for more than 30 years as a critic for The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News , died today at 64. His death was confirmed. by his partner Rob Sonoda, but no cause was given.

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Pierce wrote for the Deseret News for 20 years, losing the job in 2010 in a round of layoffs that affected 43% of that newspaper’s staff. A Tribune editor called him the next day to offer him a role as a reporter.

In a message to the newsroom Friday, Tribune executive editor Lauren Gustus wrote, “He was a friend to many of us.” In addition to working with longtime Tribune staff, she said, “he also welcomed the newest reporters, making an effort to find connections with folks who had recently joined us.”

Gustus noted that Pierce “had a conversational style that made him easy to read, and a willingness to take on anything journalism happened to throw his way on any given day.”

Pierce was one of the original panelists on the popular “Geek Show Podcast,” starting in 2008. He stayed on the show for six or seven years, said Kerry Jackson, the podcast’s creator and co-host of X96′s “Radio From Hell” program.

Pierce was also a longtime member of the Television Critics Association, and attended its twice-yearly press tours in Los Angeles for many years. Some years, he emceed TCA ’s awards ceremony — which allowed him to give a 2009 lifetime achievement award to one of his TV heroes, the actress Betty White. He was TCA’s president in 2014.

Pierce’s final TV column — an interview with the creator of the filmed-in-Utah TV series “The Chosen,” about the life of Jesus — is scheduled to be published in Sunday’s print edition of The Tribune.

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Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, the Last and Best of Them All

The traveling storyteller turned eighty-three on Friday.

Let’s get the whole gang together: Davey Moore, Hattie Carroll, Hollis Brown, Einstein disguised as Robin Hood, the motorcycle black madonna two-wheeled gypsy queen, Ma Rainey, and Beethoven, John the Baptist, the Commander in Chief, Louis the King, Napoleon in rags, Lucille, Johanna, Sweet Marie, John Wesley Harding, St. Augustine, the joker, the thief, Big Jim, Lily, Rosemary, and, most of all, the Jack of Hearts, Rubin Carter, Isis, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Blackjack Davey, Charlie Patton. All of them. Play me a song, Mr. Wolfman Jack, because if you want to remember, you’d better write down the names.

Bob Dylan turned eighty-three on Friday. All of him did. All of them did. All the personae, the entire kaleidoscope of masks, the false fronts and head fakes, and, finally, the last, and in many ways, best of them all. The traveling storyteller, the seanchai, as the people in the old country would call him. Out on the endless tour, up the endless highway. I think of him and I think of Turlough O’Carolan, the legendary blind Irish harper who would travel the countryside, composing his songs on the spot for whoever would give him food and drink. Go back further. Go back to Homer. Sing to him, O muse. When Dylan dropped “Murder Most Foul,” virtually out of a clear blue sky, blessing us with it as consolation for the years when America had gone so terribly wrong, it was Homer of whom I thought, poet and historian both, protector of the shadowland between myth and reality, chronicler of what Greil Marcus called “the old, weird America,” a phrase I wish I’d written.

He’ll be around all summer, traveling with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp and a whole clutch of other artists in something called the Outlaw Music Festival Tour. It’s a high-priced extravaganza, but, in a very real way, he’s just on the road, heading for another joint. Move along, brother Bob. The highway, as you taught us, is for gamblers, and we take what we have gathered from coincidence.

Plans are in place to adorn Florida bridges in red, white and blue lighting between May 27 and Sept. 2 as a part of the 2024 Florida Freedom Summer effort, which includes free visits to state parks on Memorial Day weekend and the lifting of sales tax on recreational items in July, according to a social media post by the Florida Department of Transportation. The plan coincides with the start of pride month, when the Sunshine Skyway and the Ringling Bridge have in the past lit up in rainbow colors in celebration of the occasion. It also overlaps other public awareness efforts, including National Gun Violence Awareness Month, Juneteenth, World Fragile X Day, Women’s Equality Day and National Recovery Month.

As Joy Reid shrewdly pointed out on Thursday night, DeSantis is cloaking this act of petty bigotry behind one of the most honored titles of the Civil Rights Movement—Freedom Summer, the effort by Bob Moses and Diane Nash and a host of other activists to bring like-minded individuals from the North down to Mississippi in the summer of 1964 to work on voting rights there. Among the earliest volunteers were Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman. Their bodies, along with that of co-worker James Chaney, turned up buried in an earthen dam after they were murdered by local Klansmen. Ron DeSantis should be shamed out of office, and out of polite society, for using the proud name for which they died as camouflage for his own small-minded purposes.

WWOZ Pick to Click: “Positively 4th Street” (Lucinda Williams): Yeah, I still pretty much love New Orleans.

Weekly Visit to the Pathé Archives: Here, from 1969, is the Beeb’s attempt to deal with hippies, accompanied by some French singer who sounds as though he’s paying homage to that year’s Isle of Wight Festival, where Bob Dylan came out of seclusion to play with The Band . He could also be singing about the price of baguettes in Avignon, for all I know. It’s a terrible song whatever he’s going on about. History is nonetheless so damn cool.

Remember all those people who pooh-pooh’ed the notion that just because they’ve managed to overturn Roe v. Wade, they’d never come for contraception? I mean, that’s just crazy talk, right? Incomprehensibly wrong. From Politico:

The first-in-the-nation legislation could be a model for other red states grappling with how to stop their residents from traveling out of state to get abortion pills or ordering them online despite their abortion bans. But people who obtain those pills don’t always have prescriptions for them, particularly if they are mailed from overseas. Under the Louisiana bill, pregnant women who obtain the medication for their own use would be exempt from criminal liability. But friends or family who help them get the pills and non-pregnant women who obtain them as a precaution could face criminal penalties for possession.

Under the legislation, doctors would need a special license to prescribe the drugs, and prescriptions would be cataloged in a state database, accessible to doctors, pharmacists, Louisiana’s medical board and law enforcement agencies with a warrant. Doctors fear that it could lead to more monitoring and second-guessing of their decisions to prescribe the drugs, especially in emergency situations.

That’s only because it, ah, will. And a database accessible by law enforcement. Won’t that be a delight in those small Louisiana towns where the local sheriff is a Christofascist yahoo. Jesus, these people.

Discovery Corner: Hey, look what we found! From Smithsonian Magazine:

In a paper posted to the preprint site bioRxiv , the researchers detected fragments of adenovirus (which causes cold-like illnesses), herpesvirus (linked to cold sores) and papillomavirus (HPV) in Neanderthal genome data. The findings have not yet been peer reviewed. If confirmed, the new findings would be the oldest human viruses ever recovered, setting a record previously held by a 31,000-year-old adenovirus , reports New Scientist ’s James Woodford.

“This DNA contains…a mixture of various DNAs, from the Neanderthal individual themselves, plus bacteria, fungus and viruses that might have infected this individual,” Marcelo Briones , a co-author of the new study and a genome researcher at the Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil, writes in an email to Gizmodo ’s Isaac Schultz. “We show that the degree of such changes in the viral genome reads recovered are consistent with the age of the Neanderthal bones, thus showing that they are not present-day contaminants.” “Taken together, our data indicate that these viruses might represent viruses that really infected Neanderthals,” he tells New Scientist.

In H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, it is what he calls “a cankering disease” that kills off the Martian invaders, a disease to which terrestrial life had developed an immunity long ago. Would be very strange if head colds killed off the Neanderthals.

Hey, Phys.org, is it a good day for dinosaur news? It’s always a good day for dinosaur news!

In studying the remains, the team was able to identify multiple skull bones , most of the creature’s back, all of one hip, some of its tail bones and almost all the bones from both of its legs. They noted that the dinosaur had multiple traits that set it apart from Carnotaurus sastrei, particularly in its skull bones. They also note that the ancient dinosaur was bipedal with extremely tiny arms. The research team found that it was a species of Furileusauria, which was a group of abelisauroid dinosaurs. Also, in comparing the remains with several other types of abelisauroid and noasaurids, they found evidence of rapid evolutionary changes during some spans of time, and little to none in others.

Short arms. Fast evolution. That’s science. I don’t make the rules. We’re happy now because they lived, and evolved, then.

I’ll be back on Tuesday for whatever fresh hell awaits. Be well and play nice, ya bastids. Stay above the snake line. Wear the damn mask. Take the damn shots, especially the boosters, and especially the most recent boosters. Watch out for the damn bird flu. And spare a moment for the good people in Iowa and across the Plains states who have been living under the gun of all the tornadoes. And for the people of Baltimore, and for the people of Israel and of Gaza, the people of Ukraine, of Lewiston, Maine, and for the victims of monkeypox in the Republic of the Congo, and of the earthquake zones in Taiwan, Iraq, Turkey, Morocco, and Colombia, and in the flood zone in Libya, and the flood zones all across the Ohio Valley, and on the Horn of Africa, and in Tanzania and Kenya, and in the English midlands, and in Virginia, and in Texas and Louisiana, and in California, and the flood zones of Indonesia, and in the storm-battered south of Georgia, and in Kenya, and in the flood areas in Dubai (!) and in Pakistan, and in the flood zones in Russia and Kazakhstan, and in the flood zones in Iran, where loose crocodiles are becoming a problem, and in the flood zones on Oahu, and in the fire zones in western Canada, and Australia, and in north Texas, and in Lahaina, where they’re still trying to recover their lives, and under the volcano in Iceland, and for the gun-traumatized folks in Austin and at UNLV, and in Philadelphia, and in Perry, Iowa, and especially for our fellow citizens in the LGBTQ+ community, who deserve so much better from their country than they’ve been getting.

Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America , and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has three children. 

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