Luna

New Moon

De: Ian McDonald

Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, Soneela Nankani, Thom Rivera

The scions of a falling house must navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family's status in the moon's vicious political atmosphere.

The moon wants to kill you - whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air or just getting caught up in a fight between the moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the moon's near-feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did.

As the leader of the moon's newest "dragon", Adriana has wrested control of the moon's helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie Metal Corporation and fought to earn her family's new status. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation, Corta Helio, surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana's five children must defend their mother's empire from her many enemies - and each other.

©2015 Ian McDonald (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Interesting, Good Read

I've got mixed feelings about this book. I enjoyed it at parts and on other parts not.
As a space drama, it was well laid out, good detail, not too much Sci Fi, got that element of realism to it.
I also liked the multi culturalism, good to see it wasn't just all American, there would be a wide variety of people from different background.
I like the character development and the social inter play, cat and mouse games.
Also the serious survival you need to survive to harshness of space.
But didn't like the end, felt unnecessary that things had to end like that.

A lua é uma amante dura!

I hope that translates to The Moon is a Harsh Mistress in Portuguese.

Do I really believe it is remotely possible a society like this could ever develop on the moon?

Naw.

Does it matter? No, it doesn't.

Outrageously entertaining.

Brilliant, lurid, provocative, brutal, sensitive, shocking, tender, and visionary.

A sexually revolutionary, elegantly nuanced, intricately plotted, intensely human lunar epic.

Strongly reminiscent of Dune in its grand finale.

Stay with it to the end and see if you don't agree.

Good listening, my friends!

-John

Game of Thrones meets Dallas on the Moon

This was a much better story than I was expecting. There is a bit too much sex in some places (I'm no prude, but I sometimes felt there a page quota the author needed to meet), but I liked the world of the moon. Corporate anarchy (there is no criminal law, only contract law) makes for interesting architectures for fictional societies. I look forward to seeing how some of the characters will continue to develop going forward.

Not a good fit for audiobooks

New Moon has a large gallery of characters, and employ rapid switches in viewpoint between them. In reading, one can skip back to the introduction with its genealogy list to keep track. Not so when listening, it's easy to forget who's who and to follow the plot properly.
The story itself, though, is like the first volume of an epic saga. Powerful in scope, ambition and world building.

Luna

This was so bad I almost turned it off in the first chapter. I didn't understand what was going on until the last chapter.

loved it!!

great story into the future, can't wait for a sequel! if your into science fiction read this

Not bad, but not amazing either

It is an interesting take on the future and concepts of things to come. I felt like we were missing part of the story which made it hard to care about the characters or the events that happened.

The Godfather on the moon with gays

Seriously, if gay sex offends you, skip this book. An interesting take on free market enterprise. The moon is controlled by five family cartels. Everything is for sale on the moon, from lives, to environment, to resources. Failure to pay will cost you, and may cost your life.

I will not be buying the sequels. Although well written, it drags through scores of details that could be skipped with no loss to the storyline. Reminds me of a student's paper they hope will be graded not by content but by weight.

solid sci fi

focused a lot on the inter- familial politics between the ruling class, it would've been nice to focus more on the underclass and the struggles of everyday people but I'm not complaining as it was still a solid story

Great story

this was an outstanding book. Thom Rivera's narration has to be suffered through but it is worth it for the story.