Books / Pandora’s Rising
Dystopian fiction · October 2026
Pandora’s Rising
The Last Son
He was never supposed to exist. She was never supposed to look.
In a world that erased men from its future, one was born in secret—hidden, protected, and raised on a single rule: never be seen.
Then she found him.
She was never supposed to cross the tree line, or ask the questions no one else dared. And she was the last person in the world he could afford to trust.
He has never spoken to a girl. She has never met a boy. Now each is keeping the other secret from the people who raised them, in a world where his existence is a crime punishable by death. And there is one thing Diana hasn’t told him: her mother is the Prime Minister.
Editions
| Format | Price | ISBN | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | $24.99 | 979-8-234-26160-1 | Buy on Amazon |
| Paperback | $14.99 | 979-8-234-26090-1 | Buy on Amazon |
| Kindle | $4.99 | Kindle edition | Buy on Amazon |
- Publisher
- Vedici Press
- Published
- October 2026
- Print length
- 268 pages
- Trim size
- 6 × 9 in
About the author
Who is G. Fox?
G. Fox is a pen name.
You may wonder who is behind it—whether they are a man or a woman, and which side they are on. Those questions are the reason this book exists.
Read it, and decide what you think. Then find someone who disagrees with you, and ask them why.
For book clubs
A book built for an argument
This book was written to be a mirror. You may finish it certain of what it’s about, and find the person beside you just as certain of the opposite. That disagreement is worth exploring.
Every edition ends with a guide of 22 discussion questions in six parts. None has a prescribed answer.
The full guide discusses the ending. Save it for after you’ve read the book.
Reading it with your club? Send your group’s questions to contact@vedicipress.com and G. Fox will answer as many as possible. The answers will be honest. The author’s identity stays off the table.
A few to start with, spoiler-free
- 1The Offering was presented as a choice: hold out your wrists and be kept, or be exiled and forgotten. Was it a choice? If you say no, what would have made it one?
- 10Diana was raised to believe that showing what you feel hands another person a weapon. Zander was raised to believe the opposite. Which of them was better equipped for the world they actually lived in?
- 14Zander and Diana were each raised on an account of what the other kind of person was. Both accounts contained some truth. What do you do with a belief that turns out to be partly right?
- 22If you handed this book to the person you most disagree with, would you expect them to come back having read a different book than you did? What would it mean if they hadn’t?
Pandora’s Rising: The Last Son © 2026 G. Fox. Cover design by Reece-Alexander Norris-Paterson.
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