2.5
Red Moon
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Red Moon is a magnificent novel of space exploration and political revolution from New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson.
It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon.
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding.
It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence, but he too will find that the moon can be a perilous place for any traveler.
Finally, there is Chan Qi. She is the daughter of the Minister of Finance, and without doubt a person of interest to those in power. She is on the moon for reasons of her own, but when she attempts to return to China, in secret, the events that unfold will change everything -- on the moon, and on Earth.
It is thirty years from now, and we have colonized the moon.
American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding.
It is also the first visit for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence, but he too will find that the moon can be a perilous place for any traveler.
Finally, there is Chan Qi. She is the daughter of the Minister of Finance, and without doubt a person of interest to those in power. She is on the moon for reasons of her own, but when she attempts to return to China, in secret, the events that unfold will change everything -- on the moon, and on Earth.
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2.5
“KSR does it again. I know a lot of people find his books to be too verbose, too many infodumps, too much exposition, but I've always found them to be a big part of his worldbuilding. Most of his books I've read feel like a future history for how plausible and well-informed they feel. This is probably the first where this was thrown into doubt for me, but that's mostly because his books seem to come from a different 2016 to present. It feels like he hadn't anticipated the direction things have gone since the 2016 election and doesn't incorporate what feels to me like the twilight of US leadership in the world. This book also came out in 2018, so there is a timing aspect to it as well.
But! I did like this book a lot. Combinations of lunar colonization in an era when the moon is beginning to create its own culture separate from the Earth-based powers that colonized it and the relationship between China and the US and a little bit of blockchain governance (this doesn't get into blockchain as much as some of his other books though). I still haven't read anything that captures how AI is actually being rolled out. Most things still talk about it as these big secret government projects instead of techbros fleecing the rest of us.
I've started labeling a lot of KSR's more recent work as political science fiction. Like political "science fiction" not fiction in poli sci. The Ministry for the Future and New York 2140 good KSR works in this realm, and another current read for me Infomocracy is looking good too.”
“all the reviews from westerners that are like "ohhh i wanted an apolitical space story there's too much politics" there's too much politics in going to space??? the notoriously apolitical field of going to space?? "what does politics have to so with enormous mobilizations of labor and massive public investment in infrastructure and scientific advancement?" grow UPPP this is why china's on the moon and not you. also not everybody missing the joke that all the westerners were named like john smith and fredrick fredricks.... it's reparations for westerners writing books where asian people have names like cho chang”
About Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt, and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California.
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