A review by elienv
Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson

3.0

I didn't really know what to expect from this book, or indeed any book by the author. The summary has much more of a thriller feel than the book itself does, which was a bit of a shame. Red Moon proves to be more a of a geopolitical drama set in the future, with an on-the-run aspect involved. Robinson raises a lot of worthwhile themes, such as the dominance of finance in our society, how the colonisation of the Moon might go, what China and the US might look like in the future. Some parts of the book, however, are a bit too philosophical for my taste, and the quantum tech bits a bit too dense. I really liked the two central characters, though, and their rapport throughout the story.