What they fear is someone else taking the moon, so they watch each other. The terrestrial states have always envied our freedom, our wealth, our achievements. Learn history, boy: the Outer Space Treaty bars Earth's national governments from claiming and controlling the moon - this is why we are administered by a corporation, not a political party. And one of those families - the Brazilian Cortas - were wiped from the map. Blood ( lots of blood) watered the regolith. And this held right up until the moment it didn't. For the sake of stable markets and profits. The five families kept an edgy détente for years. Its laws are negotiable (particularly among those with enough money, enough power or enough lawyers) but also unbreakable. That, and an extreme libertarian experiment in vested anarchy. Rare earth metals and helium were the prizes that the moon offered. A future moon, colonized decades ago by five powerful corporate families - one each from Australia, China, Brazil, Russia and Ghana - and run like a delicate business partnership.
In Luna: New Moon he gave us what the title promised twice: The moon. There are no wasted moves, nothing that isn't vital because, in the end, everything is vital. Spare, simple, elegant when he needs to be (an entire landscape taken in at a glance), deep and meaty when he wants to be (extended riffs and spooling digressions on jazz, lunar architecture, virtual sex, knives), he does his work like an artisan pulling a sculpture from stone. No one builds a world like Ian McDonald does. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. In an unstable lunar environment, the shifting loyalties and political machinations of each family reach the zenith of their most fertile plots as outright war between the families erupts.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Luna: Wolf Moon Author Ian McDonald But Corta Helio needs allies, and to find them, the fleeing son undertakes an audacious, impossible journey – to Earth. After all, Lucas always was a schemer, and even in death, he would go to any lengths to take back everything and build a new Corta Helio, more powerful than before. Only Lady Sun, dowager of Taiyang, suspects that Lucas Corta is not dead, and – more to the point – that he is still a major player in the game. And the last appointed heir, Lucas, has vanished from the surface of the moon. The remaining Helio children, Lucasinho and Luna, are under the protection of the powerful Asamoahs, while Robson, still reeling from witnessing his parent’s violent deaths, is now a ward – virtually a hostage – of Mackenzie Metals. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen.
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