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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the 22nd century, full of political intrigue and complicated families. Cariad Corcoran has a new sister who is everything she is not: tall, beautiful, confident. They're unlikely allies and even unlikelier sisters, but they're determined to find the moon's first footprint, even if the lunar frontier is doing its best to kill them before they get there.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>In <i>The Menace from Farside</i>, Ian McDonald returns to his elegantly wound solar system of the twenty-second century, full of political intrigue and complicated families</b>. <p/>Remember: Lady Luna knows a thousand ways to kill you, but family is what you know. Family is what works. <p/>Cariad Corcoran has a new sister who is everything she is not: tall, beautiful, confident. They're unlikely allies and even unlikelier sisters, but they're determined to find the moon's first footprint, even if the lunar frontier is doing its best to kill them before they get there. <p/><b>Praise for Ian McDonald's Luna series</b> <p/>"McDonald's never written a bad novel, but <i>Luna: New Moon</i> is a great one."--Cory Doctorow <p/>With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. --<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Praise for Ian McDonald's Luna series <p/>"McDonald's never written a bad novel, but <i>Luna: New Moon</i> is a great one."--Cory Doctorow <p/>With an action narrative driving this political commentary, Luna is actually a fantastically fun read as well as an important one. --<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i> <p/>"McDonald creates a complex and fascinating civilization featuring believable technology, and the characters are fully developed, with individually gripping stories."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>IAN McDONALD 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 is the author of <i>Luna: New Moon</i> and <i>Luna: Wolf Moon</i>. He has won the <i>Locus</i> Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He now lives in Belfast.

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