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 Original: Luna. New Moon

Ian McDonald, 2015

Editor digital: 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

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