Series
Luna (Ian McDonald)
Ian McDonald · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1 short story · 2014–2019
Luna follows the ruthless Corta family's fight for control of the Moon's mining industry across Ian McDonald's near-future trilogy (New Moon, Wolf Moon, Moon Rising), often described as dynastic scheming transplanted to a lunar corporate frontier with no government safety net. The Menace from Farside is a shorter, later companion novel set in the same lunar world rather than a direct continuation of the trilogy's plot. McDonald builds the series around competing lunar houses, hard-vacuum survival, and the politics of a colony that answers to no Earth authority.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Luna (Ian McDonald) at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s6
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 1 novelette · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionpolitical intriguethe moonnear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book5 of 6 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Menace from Farsidedarkest · calmest
- The Fifth Dragonbrightest · most intense