LikedIt's a briefand but engaging read and I enjoyed being back in this setting and I'm nowkeen to give the full Luna trilogy a reread.
Review 1 of 2
The Menace from Farside (2019)
Creators: Mixed In The Menace from Farside, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families. Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works. Cariad Corcoran has a new sister who is everything she is not: tall, beautiful, confident. They're unlikely allies and even unlikelier sisters, but they're determined to find the moon's first footprint, even if the lunar frontier is doing its best to kill them before they get there. Praise for Ian McDonald's Luna series "McDonald's never written a bad novel, but Luna: New Moon is a great one."—Cory Doctorow "With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. "— Los Angeles Review of Books At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Liked
MixedI didn't really like her that much and I didn't quite like the why a feel of this but it was fun in places and I really enjoy the society on the moon and how it works and all the infrastructure and stuff that McDonald has thought of it's a fantastic setting and that's mainly why I read this
Similar books
- Hopeland
- The Test
- The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World
- Unconquerable Sun
- Blue remembered Earth
- Red Moon
Ian McDonaldA time-traveling, futuristic saga of a family trying to outlast and remake a universe with a power unlike any we've seen before.
When Raisa Hopeland, determined to win her race to become the next electromancer of London, bumps into Amon Brightbourne—tweed-suited, otherworldly, guided by the Grace—in the middle of a London riot, she sets in motion a series of events which will span decades, continents and a series of events which will change the world.
From rioting London to geothermal Iceland to the climate-struck islands of Polynesia, from birth to life to death, from tranquillity to terror to joy, Raisa’s journey will encompass the world. But one thing will always be true.
Hopeland is family—and family is dangerous.
Also by Ian McDonald
The Luna Series
Luna: New Moon
Luna: Wolf Moon
Luna: Moon Rising
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
- Mixed reactions from creators9 reviews
- Also science fiction60%
- Similar descriptions40%