Moon colonization narratives seem to be in vogue again, with Kim Stanley Robinson ( Red Moon), Andy Weir ( Artemis), and John Kessel ( The Moon and the Other) recently adding their spins to the subgenre. So, to that end, before going any further, I should note that Moon Rising shouldn’t and really can’t be read as a stand-alone novel, and I’ll make no effort to avoid spoilers from the previous installments. Previous series have either gone unfinished (Chaga and Everness) or weren’t really series at all, so much as narratives set in the same world ( Desolation Road and Ares Express). Completing a tightly plotted series like this is a surprisingly new accomplishment for an SF writer who has been working as long as McDonald. WITH LUNA: MOON RISING, Ian McDonald brings his lunar colonization trilogy to a close.
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