In the future, humanity has colonized the solar system, but is now stratified in a rigid class system that is enforced by science and government alike. Golds are at the top – the nobles, the warrior-knights, the leaders – while Reds – the miners, janitors, and dregs – are at the bottom.

Red Rising is the expected revenge and revolution story you’d guess from this premise, and it features a lowly Red – Darrow, a miner – rising up to bring down the Golds and the entire system along with them. It doesn’t stray far from expectations, but where it does is very interesting.

Ironclads was an utter delight

Storywise, it’s somewhat like if Saving Private Ryan was rewritten as a Shadowrun campaign. A corpo Scion – an invincible mech suit that lets the very rich play at war – has gone missing in a questionable and ugly war. Now it’s up to a ragtag group of disparate expendables and at least one bio-horror to rescue the business boy.