The Moon only looks peaceful from afar. On its unstable surface, competition is fierce among the Five Dragons–the five families that control the Moon’s leading industrial corporations. In the vicious political atmosphere, each clan does everything to gain an advantage over the others: marriages of convenience, espionage, kidnapping, and assassinations. It is nothing less than corporate warfare….and the newest of the Five is about to launch a new campaign.
With “a feel of The Godfather meets A Song of Ice and Fire meets Ender’s Game” (Portland Book Review), Ian McDonald’s near-future space opera series has earned praise and acclaim. Both Luna: New Moon and Luna: Wolf Moon received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, and Luna: Wolf Moon was named an NPR Best Book of the Year.
The Luna Series
1. Luna: New Moon
2. Luna: Wolf Moon
3. Luna: Moon Rising
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 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.
Ian McDonald 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 has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. His first novel, Desolation Road, was published in 1988. Other works include King of Morning, Queen of Day (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award), River of Gods, The Dervish House, the graphic novel Kling Klang Klatch, and many more. He now lives in Belfast.