Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

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TitleShades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron
Year for Search2009
AuthorsFforde, Jasper(b. 1961)
Date Published2009
PublisherViking
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsEnglish author, Male author
Annotation

Humorous dystopia set in Chromatica where status is determined by the range of colors that a person can see, and lower status people are subservient to the higher status. Life is determined by “The Rules”, which the protagonist discovers to be more controlling than he had thought. For a sequel that continues where that novel ended, see Red Side Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 376 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Soho Press, 2024. 452 pp. plus a separately paged “Read on for an Exclusive Short Story for the American Edition” (17 pp.). The novel focuses on a Red on trial for murder and his illegal relationship with his codefendant, a Green, and their search for a loophole in the Rules. The short story is a marked-up manuscript of an encounter between a minor official and people living outside the system called the Riffraff. Originally described as the first volume of a trilogy to be followed by Shades of Grey 2: Painting by Numbers and Shades of Grey 3: The Gordini Protocols, but they disappeared from his website.
Additional Publishers

U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Both carry the 2010 copyright, but the U.S. ed. was published in December 2009 and the U.K. ed. in January 2010.
Info Notes

For a sequel that continues where that novel ended, see Red Side Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 376 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Soho Press, 2024. Originally described as the first volume of a trilogy to be followed by Shades of Grey 2: Painting by Numbers and Shades of Grey 3: The Gordini Protocols, but they disappeared from his website.
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Author Note

(b. 1961)
Full Text

2009 Fforde, Jasper (b. 1961). Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron. New York: Viking. U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Both carry the 2010 copyright, but the U.S. ed. was published in December 2009 and the U.K. ed. in January 2010. PSt

Humorous dystopia set in Chromatica where status is determined by the range of colors that a person can see, and lower status people are subservient to the higher status. Life is determined by “The Rules”, which the protagonist discovers to be more controlling than he had thought. For a sequel that continues where that novel ended, see Red Side Story. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 376 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Soho Press, 2024. 452 pp. plus a separately paged “Read on for an Exclusive Short Story for the American Edition” (17 pp.). The novel focuses on a Red on trial for murder and his illegal relationship with his codefendant, a Green, and their search for a loophole in the Rules. The short story is a marked-up manuscript of an encounter between a minor official and people living outside the system called the Riffraff. Originally described as the first volume of a trilogy to be followed by Shades of Grey 2: Painting by Numbers and Shades of Grey 3: The Gordini Protocols, but they disappeared from his website.