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3.5 Star. Decent. A bit boring, but with a suspenseful ending.
The Moon, or Luna, is initially colonized by corporations with the intention of selling energy resources to Earth. As a result, Luna is an oligarchy society controlled by the Five Dragons. Although, each corporation has its own niches for the most part, they do compete against each other in a lot of other areas. The main competition, it seems, is between the MacKenzies and the Helio Corta. We read this series mostly from the Cortas’ points of view.
While the political intrigues are somewhat interesting, I find it really difficult to care about the 1% of the 1%ers of the Lunarian elites. Most of the characters are the typical stock rich guys who care only about money, pleasure, sex and beating the shit out of their hated rival/frenemies. As a result, there are only very few characters that truly shine in this book. Moreover, I just don’t find the political maneuvering if the oligarchs to be interesting. As for the main mystery of the book, by process of elimination you can sort of guess who’s the villain(s).
What most interested me is the social institutions. First rule, there’s no law, only contracts. Wanna get married? Get a nikah contract (FYI, nikah is marriage in Indonesian). Wanna get a divorce? Get some lawyers (and potential fighters) to fight for you at the Court of Clavius, where all disputes are settled. In fact, you can even negotiate for your judges too! Wanna have children? You can contract with Madrinhas, who will carry you child in their wombs till delivery and then act as the child’s wet nurse and semi-mother figure. Everything is based on contracts. Everything has to be paid, even your breath needs to be paid.
Some of the technologies depicted are also interesting. The ballistic capsule that’s launched from point to point is the most interesting to me. There are also the usual advanced technologies in medicine, engineering, communication and transportation. Not in weapons, though, because bullets can cause depressurization on Luna. I don’t, for some reason, enjoy reading a lot of the descriptions on the technologies.
The final chapter, though. Damn, that’s pretty intense! Pretty worth it to slog through the book to get that conclusion.
Overall, this a decent book. Interesting social experiments. Cool gadgets and technologies. Rather forgettable and unlikeable characters. Suspenseful ending.
The Moon, or Luna, is initially colonized by corporations with the intention of selling energy resources to Earth. As a result, Luna is an oligarchy society controlled by the Five Dragons. Although, each corporation has its own niches for the most part, they do compete against each other in a lot of other areas. The main competition, it seems, is between the MacKenzies and the Helio Corta. We read this series mostly from the Cortas’ points of view.
While the political intrigues are somewhat interesting, I find it really difficult to care about the 1% of the 1%ers of the Lunarian elites. Most of the characters are the typical stock rich guys who care only about money, pleasure, sex and beating the shit out of their hated rival/frenemies. As a result, there are only very few characters that truly shine in this book. Moreover, I just don’t find the political maneuvering if the oligarchs to be interesting. As for the main mystery of the book, by process of elimination you can sort of guess who’s the villain(s).
What most interested me is the social institutions. First rule, there’s no law, only contracts. Wanna get married? Get a nikah contract (FYI, nikah is marriage in Indonesian). Wanna get a divorce? Get some lawyers (and potential fighters) to fight for you at the Court of Clavius, where all disputes are settled. In fact, you can even negotiate for your judges too! Wanna have children? You can contract with Madrinhas, who will carry you child in their wombs till delivery and then act as the child’s wet nurse and semi-mother figure. Everything is based on contracts. Everything has to be paid, even your breath needs to be paid.
Some of the technologies depicted are also interesting. The ballistic capsule that’s launched from point to point is the most interesting to me. There are also the usual advanced technologies in medicine, engineering, communication and transportation. Not in weapons, though, because bullets can cause depressurization on Luna. I don’t, for some reason, enjoy reading a lot of the descriptions on the technologies.
The final chapter, though. Damn, that’s pretty intense! Pretty worth it to slog through the book to get that conclusion.
Overall, this a decent book. Interesting social experiments. Cool gadgets and technologies. Rather forgettable and unlikeable characters. Suspenseful ending.