Red moon / Kim Stanley Robinson.
Publication details: New York, NY : Orbit, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2018.Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 446 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780356508801 (paperback)
- 0316262374
- 0356508803
- 9780316262378
- Suspense fiction
- Science fiction
- Life on other planets -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Chinese -- Moon -- Fiction
- Space colonies -- Fiction
- FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
- FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
- Life on other planets -- Fiction
- Life on other planets
- FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera
- Space colonies -- Fiction
- Moon -- Fiction
- China -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Fiction
- Moon
- Moon -- Fiction
- 813/.54 23
- PS3568.O2893 R445 2018
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Science | ROB | Available | 068692 |
"Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California"-- Provided by publisher.
"It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip there, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding. It is also the first visit to the moon for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence, but he too will find that the moon can be a perilous place for any traveler. Finally, there is Chan Qi. Daughter of the Minister of Finance, and without doubt a person of interest to those in power. She is on the moon for reasons of her own, but when she attempts to return home to China, in secret, the events that unfold will change everything - on the moon, and on Earth"--