Luna: New Moon

Ian McDonald

Sep 2015 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Suzanne Toren, Soneela Nankani, and Thom Rivera

About this audiobook

The scions of a falling house must navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family’s status in the moon’s vicious political atmosphere.

The moon wants to kill you—whether it’s being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or just getting caught up in a fight between the moon’s ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the moon’s near-feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did.

As the leader of the moon’s newest “dragon,” Adriana has wrested control of the moon’s helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie Metal Corporation and fought to earn her family’s new status. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation, Corta Helio, surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise. If the Corta family is to survive, Adriana’s five children must defend their mother’s empire from her many enemies—and each other.

Ratings and reviews

The book is very written strangely. It feels choppy, sentences are sometimes hard to follow. It doesn't feel like you're reading or listening to prose, but to random thoughts and sentences that are supposed to make up a story. The random elements of Spanish and the Spanish names make the story oven harder to follow, not to mention the strange intonation the narrator uses for it.

Took a bit to get into and there were certain things I didn't understand since the main POV family is Brazilian but after I picked up on them the book became really enjoyable. Just like people have said, Game of Thrones in space and I would say The Godfather in space as well.

About the author

Ian McDonald, the acclaimed award-winning author of science fiction, has written novels for five series, ten stand-alone novels, two novellas, any many short stories. He has won the Locus Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Phillip K. Dick Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. In 2019, he was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the European Science Fiction Society. He was born in 1960 in Manchester, England, to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He moved with his family to Northern Ireland in 1965. He now lives in Belfast.

Suzanne Toren is an actor who has appeared on and off Broadway, in regional theaters, and occasionally on TV. Over a period of several decades, she has narrated close to 1000 audiobooks for most major publishers. She has received multiple Audie nominations and many industry awards, including Narrator of the Year and Best Voices of the Year. Making beautifully crafted writing come alive is her passion; she is honored and thrilled to have been able to earn a living doing it.

Soneela Nankani is an award-winning narrator with over three hundred titles in many different genres including Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, and Nonfiction. She has garnered sixteen Earphones Awards, nominations for Audie and SOVAS awards, and was recently awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Voice Lifetime Achievement Honor. Her audiobooks have been featured in Best Audiobooks lists by AudioFile magazine and the Washington Post, among others. In her spare time, she loves to read (yes, really), learn languages, try new recipes, and travel. She lives in the DC area with her husband and two mischievous daughters.

Read by Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, Hillary Huber, Bernadette Dunne, and Kyla Garcia