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Described as a coin that is created or validated by taking carbon out of the air This forms the basis of a credit system whereby the coins can only buy sustainable necessities KSR realises though that the average reader is likely to see this as a mere cosmetic tweak to capitalism itself. Red moon books The idea really comes into its own when everyone in the world is mysteriously given a million carboncoins and an invitation to join a global householders union It leads to a fiscal noncompliance campaign of such monumental and overwhelming proportions that governments all over the world simply collapse like a deck of cards. Book red mountain While this is the broader kind of idea behind the red in the title.
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Too formulaic too transparant It seems like KSR is stuck in automatic mode in this part of his carreer or maybe by now I know him too well as an author Either way I m sad to say I DNFed after about 100 pages totally bored. Red Moon ebooks online Longer reviews analysis on Weighing A Pig 446 Three and half stars my apologies for mistreating the English language Excellent ideas good characters but not a great great story or not enough captivating for me at least if we except the last chapters In two thirds of the novel it seems that the worldbuilding deserves a better plot or epic maybe but at the end the whole story improves and all haves sense As usual in the author there are frequently infodumps generally they are interesting and does not disturb the reading but a criticism about this with all due respect to Mr Robinson wisdom I consider that this is a present or a near future speculation than a plot set in 2050 In other words in this novel there is a mix of the current concerns and uncertainties about China in our present plus an actually future speculation the latter basically the chapters that take place on the moon So an important part of the plot takes place on Earth It can be said that the novel deals with both the Moon and China itself and could easily be titled Tomorrow s China but in this way it would not allude to KSL s excellent Red Mars. Under a blood red moon pdf The author explains his own ideas about China interspersed in history mainly in the voice of one of the protagonists feng shui master and TV celebrity Ta Shu The other characters are a pregnant woman pregnancy is forbidden on the Moon for safety reasons Chan Qi daughter of the Chinese finance minister and the american Fred Fredericks who carries a quantum phone unit whose only other unknown interlocutor is on China. Pdf reader Do not misunderstand me Red Moon is a good science fiction story with interesting characters and a than correct worldbuilding but maybe not as good as in his other space novels of course not as good at Red Mars to be clear And I will be a bit unfair here maybe the handicap of the novel is that I have the Ian McDonald s syndrome that is I m reading his excellent Luna series waiting for the third and last novel On the other hand I think this book is oriented to mainstream readers in a bestselleresque style than to our science fiction guetto 446 This was a bit disappointing not a bad story not badly told but rather average a little too vague and not what I thought I was getting based on the title Red Moon Well it s about a possible social economic revolution in China so I get the Red bit But the fact that the characters get ping ponged back and forth from the Earth to the Moon didn t seem to matter that much They re on the run just some of it is in a exotic and alien setting than others. Red Moon epublishing So frankly I was bored I never became interested in the topic or themes Despite the surprisingly small cast of characters for a KSR novel no one felt very developed The best bit for me was the fact that one of the protagonists gives birth to the first baby on the moon and is heavily pregnant during the whole book and all the running around and there are absolutely zero resources in place to help her with that so how do you put an hours old infant in a spacesuit But then the book just ended at that point. Book science fiction moon The story s start is quite interesting spoilers of the first 5% of the book setting the scene an American IT guy Frederic Fredericks travels by a regular shuttle to the Moon where he has to deliver a quantum phone linked via entanglement to the unique other phone and hacking proof to a customer The largest colony on the Moon is Chinese therefore red in the title but there are many countries present and it is a global collaboration than competition even despite there are some China US issues On the shuttle he meets Ta Shu old Chinese man a famous poet in his youth but currently a net celebrity with a travelog and feng shui master The transfer of the phone went sour and now Frederic is on the run together with a princeling Chan Qi a pregnant daughter of CCP politburo member and finance minister. Red moon one band Strong sides as always great infodumps from current views on forming of our satellite to Chinese history to bamboo growing to feng shui to quantum mechanics In this sense his books are a great way to learn new things. The red moon book Weaker points no character development and too much Chinese propaganda All positive praises come from Chinese in the text so it is hard to divide what the author thinks and what are just the characters This starts with Mao who killed by his policies people than Hitler and to the current president Xi who worked hard at poverty reduction and land restoration and reducing corruption in the Party He is the same Xi who pushed for the removal of term limits for the president whose cult of personality was evident when the story was written and whose fight with corruption surprisingly well hit only folk loyal to his predecessor Hu Jintao but say when Panama leaks were out showing corruption among his folks there very term Panama was banned from Chinese search engines. Low red moon book The book started great but the ending was both too choreographed and rushed and to show authors political preferences as in the Mars trilogy than to make a good story Four star start and two star final make for three star overall rating 446 Red Moon is a novel by Kim Stanley Robinson that covers some familiar territory It is a near future science fiction story that uses a plot about Chinese political upheaval to explore politics capitalism climate change dynastic change lunar colonization quantum mechanics and popular uprising Unfortunately the plot is too meandering and poorly paced to carry all the commentary. Red moon book Kim Stanley Robinson is a very smart man He studies a lot of subjects and if you read his novels so will you During my review of New York 2140 I said it had an everything and the kitchen sink approach and Red Moon is similar This story takes time to touch on such sundry topics as bamboo gibbons in low gravity Chinese surveillance cryptocurrency and poetry I did not enjoy it as much this time I think the central plot was too vague and meandering to allow for so many deviations into unrelated topics. Book red morning by ruby frazier frey I still struggle to describe said plot I think it is about two regular people dodging the footfalls of giants during a time of dynastic change in China The protagonists Frederick Fredericks and Chan Qi are not especially active They seem to just wander around for months desperately trying to avoid capture I am not sure what would happen if they were captured I am not sure how they intended to outlast the Chinese authorities At no point do they seem to have a plan they are just dealing with each challenge as it arises This story has SERIOUS pacing issues Plot points arrive at seemingly random intervals The plot crawls along until apropos of nothing it decides to lurch forward The best example is the very long chapter of Fredericks and Chan hiding in a safe house This chapter expertly recreates the boredom of a month of house arrest They resort to entertaining each other with passages from a bird watching book and quotes from Mao Zedong until Chan suddenly decides she must eat at a restaurant Naturally this inexplicable decision initiates the next action scene Similar pacing issues made reading this novel a slog. The red moon book Red Moon does not end as much as stop There is no clear reason that Fredericks and Chan can stop running It feels like Robinson had said all he wanted to say and decided to contrive an ending the way he contrived many of the plot points. Red moon one band The characters are a mixed bag Most are underdeveloped but a few are really good Frederick Fredericks is a pretty good depiction of an autistic man EDIT I recently spoke to Kim Stanley Robinson and Fredericks was in fact meant to be autistic Ta Shu is a compelling character with some complicated thoughts on society and the human condition Others like Peng Ling and Valerie Tong had tremendous potential I wish had been done with them. Science fiction fantasy red moon book I was severely disappointed by Red Moon I know he can do better I was excited to read this novel with the NESFA reading group but we all found it lacking I hope the next book of his I read is better. When the moon turns red book CHARACTER LIST abridged Frederick FredericksChan QiTa ShuPeng LingValerie TongJohn Semple 446 American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip 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 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 She is the 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 to China in secret the events that unfold will change everything on the moon and on Earth Red MoonA geopolitical allegorical story using the trappings of mid 21st century colonization of the Moon. Red moonga stone price Fred Fredericks a quantum mechanic as he arrives at the Chinese moonbase at the Moon s south pole where he gets caught up in an assassination nearly dying himself He gets linked up with a pregnant young Chinese woman Chan Qi who has her own problems with the authorities The story follows the two of them as they bounce between the Moon and various places there China on Earth and back to the Moon all with the backdrop of the author s wish fulfillment fantasy of eco techno Marxist revolution in both China and the USA at the same time. Moonx red wine trader joe's Fred Fredericks is mildly autistic and insular with very little understanding of China or the Chinese people even though his business is with China and he can t seem to disengage from China in general Pssst He s a metaphor for the United States Chan Qi is a party princess who s the figurehead leader of a ground swell new people s revolution You ll never guess who she s a metaphor for Hint take out the Q in her name and there s an anagram going on The two of them find themselves in similar difficult circumstances and form a co dependent relationship PSSST IT S A METAPHOR The two muddle along threatened at all stages by activity in the world that they had a hand in but have no control over largely mediated by the general population and emerging new technologies DO YOU GET IT YET DO YOU METAPHOR And all of that gets mixed in with a healthy dose of infodumps on quantum theory space science and engineering geopolitics economics democracy vs Chinese socialism and in party politics within China handily given by an unnamed analyst working on an emergent artificial intelligence. Red Moon epubs The story is an absolute mess and even of a political wish fulfillment fantasy than the previous New York 2140 At no point do the characters transcend their origins as allegories and the on screen action is both mostly unbelievable and not the most interesting thing happening at the time I understand the author s political beliefs and I even share many of them but this is too heavy handed and poorly executed for even this leftie 446 KSR is one of my favorite writers and even if I don t always find the subject of his books to my liking at least I enjoy his beautiful writing This is the first for me which I did not like. Low red moon book In a few words it s a heavy socio political debate with multiple references from Chinese culture and history built apparently on a murder case on the Moon Page after page following the convoluted path of the two main characters an American and a Chinese I kept wondering what happened to KSR writing style doesn t resemble anything I read by him so far Endless political discussions interrupted here and there by the flight of those two above and in the middle of these by the introspections of a third character which gets involved in the conflict generated by the crime. Low red moon book Don t expect a murder mystery as it is not After 85% I began to find it a bit interesting because I started to have a hunch on where it s going And I got the whole picture only at the final line in the book That s another first for me As I see it the whole story is a metaphor for our current global socio political context and where we re headed Where You ll see at the end of the book I ruminated upon it a few days If I m right about the metaphor part the idea is brilliant However I did not like a bit the execution I missed the fluent writing the sense of wonder reading his thoughts and his endless knowledge in so many domains Reading mostly about Mao Feng Shui and China s political schemes was a chore for me However for someone interested in politics it may be a blast ARC received thanks to Little Brown Book Group UK Orbit via NetGalley 446 Let s be real here I didn t come to KSR s dinner table for a simple adventure story I always come to eat a novel so rich with ideas that I tent to forget that there s a core story underneath all the cool bits of political revolution economic warfare the problem of representation quantum intelligence cultural identity and of course CHANGE. Red moon books Did I enjoy the characters represented The popular revolution pregnant princess on the run with an American quantum physicist as they hop throughout the heart of China and the moon angling toward a war of hearts minds and wallets Yeah I did But it was downright SUBTLE compared to the rich mess of other ideas popping all around me In this respect it s quite on par with 2312 Less space opera revolution and very wonderfully full of Chinese 446 Having loved Kim Stanley Robinson s previous novels I jumped at the chance to read this one The story is a fascinating one which explores the current international relations between the U. Red moons S and China relations that are becoming increasingly hostile It takes place both on the Moon and on Earth with wonderfully vivid descriptions that immerse you in the settings Refreshingly original stunning with an authentic portrayal of the Chinese culture something I have always been intrigued by this novel was exhilarating At its core this is an exceptionally thrilling murder mystery and there were many intense and suspenseful moments littered throughout the novel Although this was entertainment of the highest order I felt that some of the author previous books were actually successful in terms of the exploration of different topics There is certainly plenty of action the three main characters are beautifully painted and each very different from one another With a writing style that is easy to follow and engage with exploration of politics and artificial intelligence within the context of the story and colonisation and its causes and effects this was an exciting and unputdownable speculative sci fi work I look forward to reading from him in the future Highly recommended. Low red moon book Many thanks to Orbit for an ARC 446 Food water shelter clothing healthcare education these all need to be adequate for everyone alive before anything else good can happen The interpenetration of people and planet being so complete as to be determinative of every living thing s shared fate meeting basic needs for all the living creatures in the shared biosphere is also required to secure the general health and welfare of humanity and its fellow creatures. Red moon book benjamin percy It was fitting to have read this during the period of Lenin s birthday on Earth Day on 22 April and of course Workers Day on 1 May In a 2020 article in Jacobin magazine entitled One of our Greatest Ever Socialist Novelists Arvind Dilawar comments that KSR writes radical science fiction that offers readers not an easy vision of utopia but a hopeful alternative that still confronts the ecological devastation wrought by capitalism One of the intriguing ideas in Red Moon is a cryptocurrency known as carboncoin a red moon is actually an optical effect created by a lunar eclipse Beware of lazy symbolism KSR seems to warn his readers Speaking of symbolism readers of Antarctica 1997 will be surprised to see the return of Ta Shu a celebratory blogger whose many fascinating asides include not only a comparison between feng shui and quantum mechanics but how on earth one can apply the principles of feng shui in an airless and waterless environment like the moon. Red moonmilk This would not be a KSR novel if we did not have an AI as a viewpoint character as in Aurora 2015 Here the AI muses on everything from Thucydides to Chairman Mao as it grapples with the world s increasingly fractured geopolitics Oh did I mention that this book is structured like a thriller It begins when Ta Shu accompanies Fred Fredericks on a visit to the moon to deliver a quantum entangled phone to the governor of China s Lunar Special Administrative Region the red section of the moon A diplomatic incident I do not wish to spoil the plot soon follows that sees Fred return to earth with a reluctant and very pregnant Chan Qi in tow the daughter of a prominent Chinese politician The clumsy interaction between the two largely due to the bumbling and socially awkward nature of Fred sort of mirrors a nascent d tente between East and West Yes KSR does reference Orientalism 1978 by Edward W Said. Kindle Red moonshine You d think this was a comedy of errors as opposed to a thriller when hardly returned to earth Fred and Chan flee back to the moon This time we are introduced to the free crater people an anarchist community inhabiting a subterranean lava tube large enough to host an aerial city Described as a new kind of commons a new way of living the free crater has almost as many yottaflops available as all the servers in the United States combined Computing power was economic power they said and economic power was political power The free crater community is predicated on blockchain governance whereby all activities and decisions everything we do as a town is recorded in a secure distributed network An inhabitant remarks cheerfully We call it documented anarchy A full disclosure commons Anyone can do anything but everyone gets to know what that is Here follows one of the most inspired and bonkers scenes that KSR has ever conjured up A lunar meaning zero gravity performance of the Philip Glass opera Satyagraha replete with orchestra and a chorus of hundreds It is a literally dizzying setpiece beautifully described and weirdly alien and a fantastic example of how astutely KSR subverts our understanding of seemly innocuous concepts like normal or human. Red moon book benjamin percy Long time KSR readers won t mind this being a bit of a shaggy dog story so jam packed with a surfeit of ideas and images that the narrative thread is dropped and picked up again only when the author seems to remember he has a murder mystery to resolve My biggest gripe is the ending or rather the lack of one as it genuinely seems KSR just stopped writing in the middle of one of the most nailbiting sequences in what is quite a long book Maybe he was aiming for an ambiguous ending Whatever it is a supremely frustrating and unsatisfactory conclusion. Red monza Despite this Red Moon not only continues KSR s fascination with China as both a cultural and political force it is also a great example of his astute dissection of the strengths and weaknesses of both socialism and capitalism 446 
Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer probably best known for his award winning Mars trilogy. Low red moon book His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations such as the 15 years of research and lifelong fascination with Mars which culminated in his most famous work He has due to his fascination with Mars become a member of the Mars Society. Red moon uk 2024 Robinsons work has been labeled by reviewers as literary science fiction Excerpted from site_link Wikipedia Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer probably best known for his award winning Mars trilogy. When the moon turns red book His work delves into ecological and sociological themes regularly and many of his novels appear to be the direct result of his own scientific fascinations such as the 15 years of research and lifelong fascination with Mars which culminated in his most famous work He has due to his fascination with Mars become a member of the Mars Society. Red moon yard Ok then 446 This is a near future hard SF novel with political elements I read is as a part of monthly reading for September 2020 at The Evolution of Science Fiction group, Low red moon book But like a rice dish with WAY too many spices the core story to this novel is somewhat overwhelmed by this plethora of great ideas: Red moons Robinson s work has been labeled by reviewers as literary science fiction Excerpted from site_link Wikipedia site_link.