McDonald's portrait of a cutthroat society trying to survive in the deadliest of environments also make it one of the strongest science fiction novels of the year.' - The Chicago Tribune “McDonald creates a complex and fascinating civilization featuring believable technology, and the characters are fully developed, with individually gripping stories.” - Publishers Weekly, starred review 'With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. “McDonald's never written a bad novel, but is a great one.” -Cory Doctorow If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana's five children must defend their mother's empire from her many enemies. Now, in the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation-Corta Helio-confronted by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise.

And that is just what Adriana Corta did.Īs 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. On the Moon, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. Maybe it will kill you when you are trapped between the reigning corporations-the Five Dragons-in a foolish gamble against a futuristic feudal society. Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water, and air runs out, just before you hit paydirt. Luna: Wolf Moon continues Ian McDonald's saga of the Five Dragons.In Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon, 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. 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 erupts.

But Corta Helio needs allies, and to find them, the fleeing son undertakes an audacious, impossible journey-to Earth. After all, Lucas always was the 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 of 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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