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.
Maybe it will kill you when the per diem for your allotted food, water, and air runs out, just before you hit paydirt. Maybe it will kill you when you are trapped between the reigning corporations-the Five Dragons-in a foolish gamble against a futuristic feudal society. On the Moon, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. 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, in the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation-Corta Helio-confronted 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.
Ian McDonald
Luna
New Moon
Luna - 1
ePub r1.0
libra 30.06.16
Titulo Originaclass="underline" Luna. New Moon
Ian McDonald, 2015
Editor digitaclass="underline" libra
ePub base r1.2
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Character List
For terms relating to lunar marriage customs and corporate titles, see the glossary on page 393.
CORTA HÉLIO
Adriana Corta: founder and choego of Corta Hélio
Carlos de Madeiras Castro: oko of Adriana (d)
Rafael (Rafa) Corta: oldest son of Adriana. Hwaejang of Corta Hélio
Rachel Mackenzie: oko of Rafa Corta
Lousika Asamoah: keji-oko of Rafa Corta
Robson Corta: son of Rafa Corta and Rachel Mackenzie
Luna Corta: daughter of Rafa Corta and Lousika Asamoah
Lucas Corta: second son of Adriana. Jonmu of Corta Hélio
Amanda Sun: oko of Lucas Corta
Lucasinho Corta: son of Lucas Corta and Amanda Sun
Ariel Corta: daughter of Adriana Corta. Prominent lawyer at the Court of Clavius
Carlinhos Corta: third son of Adriana Corta. Surface work manager and zashitnik for Corta Hélio
Wagner ‘Lobinho’ Corta: fourth (disowned) son of Adriana Corta. Analyst and moon wolf
Marina Calzaghe: Corta Hélio surface worker, later assistant to Ariel Corta
Helen De Braga: Head of Finance Corta Hélio
Heitor Pereira: Head of Security Corta Hélio
Dr. Carolina Macaraeg: personal physician to Adriana Corta
Nilson Nunes: Steward of Boa Vista
MADRINHAS
Ivete: host mother to Rafa Corta
Monica: host mother to Lucas Corta
Amalia: host mother to Ariel Corta
Flavia: host mother to Carlinhos, Wagner and Lucasinho Corta
Elis: host mother to Robson and Luna Corta
MACKENZIE METALS
Robert Mackenzie: founder Mackenzie Metals; retired CEO
Alyssa Mackenzie: oko of Robert Mackenzie (d)
Duncan Mackenzie: oldest son of Robert and Alyssa Mackenzie, CEO of Mackenzie Metals
Anastasia Vorontsov: oko of Duncan Mackenzie
Rachel Mackenzie: youngest daughter of Duncan and Anastasia, oko of Rafa Corta and mother of Robson Corta
Apollonaire Vorontsov: keji-oko of Duncan Mackenzie
Adrian Mackenzie: oldest son of Duncan and Apollonaire; oko to Jonathon Kayode, Eagle of the Moon
Denny Mackenzie: youngest son of Duncan and Apollonaire: head of Mackenzie Fusible, the helium-3 subdivision of Mackenzie Metals
Bryce Mackenzie: younger son of Robert Mackenzie, Head of Finance for Mackenzie Metals, father of numerous ‘adoptees’
Hoang Lam Hung: adoptee of Bryce Mackenzie and briefly oko to Robson Corta
Jade Sun-Mackenzie: second oko of Robert Mackenzie
Hadley Mackenzie: son of Jade Sun and Robert Mackenzie; zashitnik to Mackenzie Metals. Half-brother of Duncan and Bryce
Analiese Mackenzie: dark-amor of Wagner Corta in his dark aspect
Eoin Keefe: Head of security at Mackenzie Metals; replaced by Hadley Mackenzie
Kyra Mackenzie: Moonrunner
AKA
Lousika Asamoah: oko to Rafa Corta, later member of the Kotoko Abena Asamoah: Moonrunner
Kojo Asamoah: Colloquium colleague of Lucasinho Corta and Moonrunner
Ya Afuom Asamoah: party-goer at Twé
Adofo Mensa Asamoah: Omahene of the Golden Stool, head of the Kotoko
TAIYANG
Jade Sun: oko to Duncan Mackenzie
Amanda Sun: oko to Lucas Corta
Jaden Wen Sun: owner of Tigers of the Sun handball team
Jake Tenglong Sun: CEO of the short-lived Smallest Birds design house
Fu Xi, Shennong, the Yellow Emperor: the Three August Ones: high level AIs developed by Taiyang
VTO
Valery Vorontsov: founder of VTO, has spent the last fifty years in free fall aboard the cycler Sts. Peter and Paul
Nicolai ‘Nick’ Vorontsov: commander of the VTO moonship fleet
Grigori Vorontsov: (briefly) amor and shelterer of Lucasinho Corta
LUNAR DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Jonathon Kayode: Eagle of the Moon: President of the Lunar Development Corporation
Judge Kuffuor: Senior Judge on the Court of Clavius and Ariel Corta’s law teacher
Nagai Rieko: Senior Judge of the Court of Clavius and member of the Pavilion of the White Hare
Vidhya Rao: economist and mathematician, White Hare and Lunarian Society member, independence campaigner. Developed the Three August Ones with Taiyang for the Whitacre Goddard corporation
SISTERHOOD OF THE LORDS OF NOW
Irmã Loa: Confessor to Adriana Corta
Madrinha Flavia: joined the Sisterhood after her exile from Boa Vista
Mãe-de-Santo Odunlade Abosede Adekola: Matron of the Sisters of the Lords of Now
MERIDIAN/QUEEN OF THE SOUTH
Jorge Nardes: bossanova musician and amor of Lucas Corta
Sohni Sharma: researcher at the University of Farside
Mariano Gabriel Demaria: director of the School of Seven Bells, an assassin’s college
An Xiuying: trade delegate from the China Power Investment Corporation
Elisa Stracchi: freelance nanoware designer for Smallest Birds
THE WOLVES