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McDonald, Ian. Luna: New Moon. Luna No. 1. Tor, 2015.
Almost every review of Luna: New Moon has mentioned its debt to Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Others have compared it to The Godfather. Both are apt. We begin with a group of teenagers racing naked from one airlock to another—breathe out so your lungs don’t explode, and whatever you do, don’t fall. These kids are adapted to low pressure environments and know breath control better than a yogi master, so the event is not as outrageous as it might seem. The race is an adulthood rite in a society that charges for air and water and is dominated by five dynastic gangster families. And we are soon following several characters through the family conflicts that can be more dangerous than running naked in vacuum. Imagine a Heinleinian libertarian society run by ruthless oligarchs, who always looking for ways to wound each other. The premise seems to be that the inherent dangers of lunar life have produced a ruthless Darwinian social structure. It will be interesting to see where the rest of the trilogy goes.
Almost every review of Luna: New Moon has mentioned its debt to Heinlein’s The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. Others have compared it to The Godfather. Both are apt. We begin with a group of teenagers racing naked from one airlock to another—breathe out so your lungs don’t explode, and whatever you do, don’t fall. These kids are adapted to low pressure environments and know breath control better than a yogi master, so the event is not as outrageous as it might seem. The race is an adulthood rite in a society that charges for air and water and is dominated by five dynastic gangster families. And we are soon following several characters through the family conflicts that can be more dangerous than running naked in vacuum. Imagine a Heinleinian libertarian society run by ruthless oligarchs, who always looking for ways to wound each other. The premise seems to be that the inherent dangers of lunar life have produced a ruthless Darwinian social structure. It will be interesting to see where the rest of the trilogy goes.