Kim Stanley Robinson's RED MOON 🌙 [2018] is a complicated, complex, fascinating novel, very politically and scientifically aware. It also reprises some characters from his incredible 1997 novel, ANTARCTICA, including Chinese Feng Shui philosopher and poet (and "Cloudstar" for his Internet travelogue musings) Ta Shu, who is a perfect character: both Wise (intensely), calm, able to see more than one side of a situation, Poetic and accomplished in the study and practice of Feng Shui, a "geomancer." Yet he is also vulnerable and accountable: his age, his attachment to his mother, his physical ailments due to age and extensive travel, his compassion for the book's Feckless Heroes: American Neurodivergent Quantum Mechanic specialist Fred Fredericks and Moon-pregnant [Forbidden] "princessling" Chinese resistance leader Chang Qi. Although laden with political musings and cultural and historical references [China] and Geopolitics [particularly in China and the U.S.], RED MOON is also non-stop adventure...and the cliffhanger! ending left me longing for a sequel! (It's almost 5 years since Release of RED MOON!)
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