Book description
Ian McDonald's "Moon Rising" crackles with the electric tension of a corporate war fought with boardroom strategies and orbital bombardments. The final installment of the Luna trilogy transforms the Moon into a chessboard where five powerful families maneuver for ultimate control, their machinations as intricate as the lunar mining operations that fuel their empires.
McDonald's prose captures the stark beauty of humanity's celestial colony while peeling back the layers of a complex political thriller. Lucas Cortas emerges as a formidable protagonist, rising from corporate ashes like a phoenix forged in lunar dust and ambition. His sister Ariel, the brilliant lawyer, provides a compelling counterpoint-brains versus brawn, legal maneuvering against raw power plays.
The audiobook format breathes life into McDonald's richly detailed world, where corporate espionage mingles with family vendettas and the very airlocks of lunar stations become stages for deadly drama. Narration carries the weight of generations of inherited grudges and the cold calculations of interplanetary commerce.
What sets this space opera apart is McDonald's ability to ground epic scope in intimate human struggles. The marriage alliances, assassinations, and betrayals feel personal rather than merely geopolitical. The Moon itself becomes a character-harsh, beautiful, and unforgiving as the family dynasties that battle for its resources.
This concluding volume delivers satisfying closure while maintaining the breakneck pace that has made the Luna trilogy compulsively readable. McDonald proves once again that the best science fiction uses fantastic settings to illuminate very human truths about power, family, and the price of ambition.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience