To Crush the Moon

Queendom of Sol, Book 4

Conclusion to the groundbreaking Queendom of Sol series

Once, the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankind’s loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an immorbid population, space itself literally ran out.…

Conrad Mursk has returned to Sol on the crippled starship Newhope. His crew are the frozen refugees of a failed colony known as Barnard’s Star. A thousand years older, Mursk finds Sol on the brink of rebellion, while a fanatic necro cult is reviving death itself. Now Mursk and his lover, Captain Xiomara “Xmary” Li Weng, are sent on a final, desperate mission by King Bruno de Towaji — one of the greatest terraformers of the ages — to literally crush the moon. If they succeed, they’ll save billions of lost souls. If they fail, they’ll strand humanity between death and something unimaginably worse.…

©2005 Wil McCarthy (P)2021 Recorded Books

Excellent adventure series with great worldbuildin

Only missing is a rewrite of Lun aeroatmo terraforming chapter for self consistency without faxing.