Golden Son by Pierce Brown

Published by Del Rey, 2015.

 

Binding completed in 2026. 

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Limited set of copies available on commission - $1,300. Please contact me if interested.

The use of an alternative textblock is possible if provided. 

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Materials

Bound in goat leather with laced in boards. The design features hand dyed onlays in goat and calf, foil tooling, and handpainted page edges. The endpages are bugra paper that have been painted with acrylic paint. 

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Design Statement

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"Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails for Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain."

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For Golden Son, loyalty and betrayal was my working concept. The lines trailing down the cover are the relationships that Darrow has made and lost. Some remain true, some are broken temporarily, some forever. 

Cutting across the cover are iron colored lines which are a direct reference to the Iron Rain. It's a moment so seismic that it needed a place in the design. This worked to give visual impact but also allowed this book to have a distinct visual identity within the set.  The gradient you see on the page edges is about Darrow's transition into Gold society. He never forgets his roots as a red but he is truly entrenched now. 

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Read more about my design choices here. 

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