The winner of the award will be announced on September 22nd, 2018, at ElsterCon in Leipzig. Feinde, die Adriana und ihren Clan nun zu Fall bringen wollen…
Als junge Frau musste sich Adriana in der brutalen Mondgesellschaft nach oben kämpfen – und hat sich dabei eine Menge Feinde gemacht.
Einer davon ist die Corta Helio Corporation unter dem Vorsitz der Patriarchin Adriana Corta. Doch auf dem Erdtrabanten geschieht nichts, ohne dass die dort ansässigen, rivalisierenden Wirtschaftsgiganten – die sogenannten Fünf Drachen – davon erfahren. Here’s the synopsis for the first novel…ĭie Zukunft: Schon lange ist der Mond den Menschen zu einer zweiten Heimat geworden. McDonald's got the zeitgeisty magic with an intergenerational space opera that turns on a plan to make humans obsolete and cover the surface of the Moon with solar-powered cryptocurrency mining rigs, with set pieces as grand as any that Bollywood or George Lucas ever imagined, from hand to hand combat in a ring to massed armies battling on the surface of the Moon.We’re very happy to report that Ian McDonald‘s critically-acclaimed Luna series has been nominated for the Kurd Laßwitz Preis in the ‘Bestes ausländisches SF-Werk mit deutscher Erstausgabe’ category (Best Foreign SF available in German translation)!īoth of the novels - LUNA and WOLFSMOND - are published in Germany by Heyne. McDonald's wildly imaginative worldbuilding (present since his debut novel, the utterly wonderful standout Out On Blue Six) and his ability to spin out intrigues are both in full flight in this final volume.ĬBS has the rights to adapt the series, and no wonder.
McDonald's richly imagined Lunar culture and interplanetary poleconomy make for a superb backdrop for literally dozens of richly realized human dramas, and it's hard to say which is more fascinating. Luna: Moon Rising is a practically perfect concluding volume, and not just because it ties off all the loose ends - before it does that, it brings the characters to places that are both utterly unexpected (in the moment) but totally justifiable (in hindsight). Back in 2015, the incomparable Ian McDonald ( previously) published Luna: New Moon, a kind of cross between Dallas and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, with warring clans scheme and fighting on a libertopian lunar colony where the only law is private contracts and you're charged for the very air you breathe McDonald raised the stakes to impossible heights with the 2017 sequel Luna: Wolf Moon, and now, with the final volume, Luna: Moon Rising, McDonald proves that he despite the wild gyrations of his massive cast of characters and their intricate schemes, he never lost control.
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