After a series of chases and escapes, Fredericks and Qi return to the Moon, where they encounter a wealthy Chinese businessman building his own ideal colony and visit free settlers creating a lunar city outside government control. They are pursued by Chinese authorities who believe that Qi will lead a revolution of disaffected workers and displaced migrants to overthrow the Party leadership. A journalist helps Fredericks and the dissident leader Qi, who is due to give birth soon, escape back to Earth. He is held on suspicion of murdering the official to whom he was delivering the device. Upon his arrival he is nearly killed during the handover of the device, but cannot remember what happened. In the year 2047, Fred Fredericks is sent to the Moon to deliver a quantum communications device. It was reviewed in several national media outlets, with mixed reception. The novel is set in China and on the Moon. Red Moon is a 2018 science fiction novel by American novelist Kim Stanley Robinson.
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