A review by utopologist
Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson

3.0

Perhaps KSR's most liberal book (coming from a communist, to be clear). Unlike most of his books, which offer a possible future and discuss what would happen to get there, Red Moon offers a little bit about various moon settlements but spends most of the book making a statement on China and its economy right now. Unfortunately, he doesn't give much analysis beyond what you could find in, say, the Wall Street Journal or The Atlantic (and even uses some various debunked but popularly accepted myths about the Chinese Communist Party). He doesn't look at the material impact of Chinese governance in the last few decades, and he doesn't actually look at China's model.

It's decently written, as most of his stuff is, but I found it a slog.