Luna : : Moon Rising

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Call Number: Science Fiction / McDonald, Ian
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons--five families who control the Moon's leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain--marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of the Moon. The only person who can stop him is a brilliant lunar lawyer, his sister, Ariel. Witness the Dragons' final battle for absolute sovereignty in Ian McDonald's heart-stopping finale to the Luna trilogy"-- Provided by publisher.

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Great series submitted by psproefrock on June 15, 2019, 8:12pm I devoured all three books in this series. It really holds together, unlike many series where all the good ideas come in the first book, and things slowly taper off over the sequels. Things stay interesting and compelling all the way through. And maybe the best recommendation I could give: I'd still like to see another book in the series.

Epic Political Sci-Fi submitted by Meginator on August 31, 2019, 10:05pm This book is amazing, an absolute masterwork of science fiction and a conclusion worthy of, and potentially surpassing, its predecessors. Ian McDonald’s fundamental trick is that he operates simultaneously on two scales: the epic and the intimate. The primary plot points may revolve around the far-reaching consequences of the lunar elites’ vast political machinations, yet the real driving forces are the intricate webs of relationships and their individual personalities that drive these major events. Everything here feels real and fully earned; events occur not because McDonald wants them to, but because they are the natural consequences of his characters’ actions. Moreover, McDonald deftly manages to juggle a huge number of stories without ever losing sight of the bigger picture, and everything ultimately comes together in an explosive finale that is wholly surprising yet completely apt. The novel has its imperfections, not least among them the introduction of Earth-Moon and intra-Moon economic tensions that supposedly underlie the entire book but play a surprisingly minor part in its storylines, but even these provide a realistic backdrop for the Five Dragons’ machinations, which have always formed the heart of the series anyway. The whole series has indeed been building to his point, and McDonald cashes in all of his chips on an excellent finale that displays his astounding talent. Come for the intricate sci-fi vision of an inhabited Moon, stay for the political intrigue and character development. It is so, so worth it.

One caveat: not being a member of the Disabled community, I cannot comment on McDonald’s handling of a character with a significant physical disability. It may be worth looking into alternate perspectives on this character.