To write his new novel, Red Moon, the sci-fi author became an expert on lunar colony tech
IEEE Spectrum – By Sally Adee
But for Red Moon, which is set so close to the current moment, the underlying “really” is the same thing as the explicit plot—it’s about China taking over the moon. China and the United States are the two crucial players in world history in our time, and neither country has a really effective system of political representation, and both exist in an important way under the rule of global capital, a rule that is wrecking the biosphere and people’s lives.