Luna Moon Rising, Ian McDonald
Luna Moon Rising, Ian McDonald
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Luna: Moon Rising

Author: Ian McDonald

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 16 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/19/2019

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The continuing saga of the Five Dragons, Ian McDonald’s fast-paced, intricately plotted space opera pitched as Game of Thrones meets The ExpanseA hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons—five families that 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 Corta 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.

About Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald, the acclaimed award-winning author of science fiction, has written novels for five series, ten stand-alone novels, two novellas, any many short stories. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Phillip K. Dick Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. In 2019, he was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the European Science Fiction Society. He was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He now lives in Belfast.

About Adam Verner

Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on April 05, 2019

Ian McDonald is one hell of a writer. I've been following his career rather closely and I've loved the kinds of intricate people-centric webs he weaves. They always appear rather rambling and exploratory but more than that, they're deeply about the characters. Fascinating doesn't begin to describe th......more

Goodreads review by Justine on August 01, 2022

Well if you made it here to the end, then you know what to expect, and that's exactly what Moon Rising delivers: complicated, political, violent, and full of the expected unexpected. One thing of exceptional note is the writing. In this final book in particular McDonald shows his mastery of language......more

Goodreads review by Emily on June 10, 2019

This trilogy got weaker with each book. The final novel was just boring and repetitive. Many of the characters really had no point in the story at all - Robson, Wagner, Lucasinho, Luna - they're all in the story, they all had large parts of the book dedicated to them, but what was the point? It was......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 03, 2019

These books are epic on the scale of Game of Thrones, gory on the scale of Stephen King, clever on the scale of Kaz Brekker, and diverse to boot.  I recommend this series every chance I get. But that isn't to say the books aren't without their flaws.  There are definitely some things I would have lik......more

Quotes

“Ian McDonald is one of the very best science fiction writers in the world. His novels are fearless, brilliant, wise—they illuminate and entertain spectacularly.” Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times bestselling author

“Lightning fast, relentless, and merciless, even when there is noth­ing to be gained except the destruction of enemies.” Locus

“Moon colonization narratives seem to be in vogue again…However, the Luna trilogy stands out as the most attuned to our precarious age by yoking the libertarian moon-base narrative of yesteryear to the issues that pervade our present and strangle our future.” Los Angeles Review of Books

“McDonald concludes his Luna space opera trilogy in triumphant style…The political intrigue never feels too abstract or removed from twenty-first-century Earth. Readers will appreciate the care McDonald takes with both worldbuilding and characterization, and will enjoy little touches such as giving an assassin the job title of Corporate Conflict Resolution Officer…Fans of the prior books will find this wrap-up rewarding.” Publishers Weekly

“Backgrounds of the five families tie traditions back to various Earth cultures, with clear evolution to a unique Lunar environment.” Booklist

Awards

  • Locus Recommendation
  • Locus Award
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