The writers of science fiction more dedicated to the cause always end up approach the stellar as a recurring scenario that hooks us all due to its unknown nature. Even more so considering a world of ours about which we already know "almost everything."
This is the case of ian mcdonald as it is also from John Scalzi or Andy Weir, all of them heirs of the tandem between Arthur C. Clarke,en and Kubrick with the fascinating odyssey in space that transcended the literary and cinematic to provide the interplanetary CiFi with a philosophical transcript for more than one generation of fans.
And that in the case of McDonald perhaps the cosmos was not planned at all. Because his literary career had gone through disparate scenarios between the fantastic, the dystopian or even terror. Until it suffered, like so many others, the influence of the moon and began to series a trilogy that maintained its epic tendency but already in places as close as our satellite... The sea of ​​tranquility no longer returned, nor will it return in a future not so far away, to be the same...
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New Moon
It's what the moon has. It probably has few secrets to hide from us. And yet the imagination is still determined to spot selenites, aliens hidden in its hidden face ... From there, you can understand the success of this series located in that inhospitable place that governs our sky every night with its strange imperial light.
The icy acrimony of the void. The deadly radioactive fallout. The dust that covers it, as old as the Earth. The growing weakness of the bones ... Or you may run out of money for water. Or for air. Or you can fall out of favor with one of the Five Dragons, the corporations that run the Moon and control its vast resources. But you stay, because the Moon can make you richer than you can imagine ... as long as you are still alive.
Adriana Corta is eighty years old. His family runs Corta Hélio. They have survived the relentless corporate wars and the dangerous peace that followed. But now that peace is cracking. Adriana will likely have to die, although she will not be killed by her rivals or the Moon. Whatever his fate, however, Corta Hélio will not die.
Wolf moon
Corta Hélio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided among its countless enemies, and its survivors are scattered.
Eighteen months have passed. Lucasinho and Luna, the young Corta, are under the protection of the powerful Asamoah, while Robson, still shocked after witnessing the violent death of his parents, is now a ward, practically a hostage, of Mackenzie Metals. And the last heir, Lucas, has disappeared from the face of the Moon.
Only Lady Sun, the matriarch of Taiyang, suspects that Lucas Corta is not dead and, more importantly, that he still plays an important role. After all, he has always been good at scheming, and even in death he is willing to do anything to recover what was lost and rebuild Corta Hélio, with more power than before. But Corta Hélio needs allies and, to find them, the fugitive son undertakes a daring and impossible journey... to Earth.
In an unstable lunar environment, the shifting loyalties and political intrigues of the various families reach the zenith of their most elaborate plots when open war breaks out between them.
Rising moon
The resolution of the trilogy. The end of a fantasy that will make us contemplate with different eyes that lonely satellite, of melancholic light but capable of awakening unpredictable influences on us ...
A hundred years into the future, a war rages between the Five Dragons, the five families that control the major industrial companies on the Moon. All clans go out of their way to climb to the top of the food chain with strategies like marriages of convenience, industrial espionage, kidnapping, and mass murder.
Thanks to his ingenious political manipulation and willpower, Lucas Corta manages to emerge from the ashes of his destroyed company and take control of the Moon. And the only person who can stop him is a famous lunar lawyer: his sister Ariel.
