Do we like Pierce Brown?
Our score: 7 out of 10. Nothing harmful or nasty found and one quick, fan-led U-turn, but little public record on causes or politics to go higher.
Pierce Brown is the bloke behind the Red Rising sci-fi saga, a class-war epic set on a colonised Mars. He moved around a lot as a kid, living in eight states before finishing high school, and wanted to be a zoologist before writing took over.
The underdog story is real. After school he wrote in his parents' garage in Seattle, worked as an NBC Page in Los Angeles, and wrote six books between 18 and 22 without landing an agent. When agents wanted Red Rising toned down and simplified, he refused, and Del Rey then made a three-book offer.
The nearest thing to a stoush on his record is the 2022 NFT flap. He announced an NFT project called Solar Society, fans pushed back hard over environmental concerns and the harm NFTs had done to creative communities, and he cancelled it the next day. Listening to the planet-minded crowd and folding quickly is a decent look, whatever you think of the idea.
On the harm check, searches for anything he has said or done about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, health or the climate came up empty. No campaigning, no conspiracy rabbit holes, no dodgy co-stars, and no court cases or allegations turned up. That's a clean sheet, but it's partly a quiet one, because he doesn't wade into politics much in the coverage we found.
Lately the news is about screens. In March 2026 he told content creator Maude Garrett that the TV version doing the rounds online was “a corpse”, and said he only learned in October 2025 it wouldn't go ahead. Now a Paramount film is coming, with Brown as an executive producer.
Fans are still waiting on Red God, the final book. Brown said in March 2026 that it wouldn't land in summer, and no release date has been announced. We found no documented charity work to point to, so the good stuff here is mostly that fans love the books.