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Loading... The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (original 1966; edition 1997)by Robert A. Heinlein
Work InformationThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Complex tale. Another pre-goodreads book i liked. ( ) Many libertarian folks I know do all but sleep with this book under their pillow, and a few have gone so far as to claim that it's a viable model for a Libertarian Revolution, so I figured I'd read the thing finally. Those that want to use this as a model seem to have forgotten two steps: Step 1: Accidently create a self-aware supercomputer to plan, organize, run, and run the aftermath of the minute details of your revolution. Step 2: live on the moon. Despite that, it was a rather fun read. 4.5* I don't know what I had expected from this Hugo award-winning science fiction novel but it was so much better than I had anticipated! The main reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that Heinlein's personal views on politics (as voiced by Prof) were a little too pushy & some of the Earth politics was dated. However, it remains an insightful look at colonialism & revolution despite those flaws. And I loved the look at how the Luna colonists handled marriage as well as other aspects of life there. To top it all off, there is Mike -- the computer who has become sentient though nobody except Manny knows it at the start of the book! Lloyd James does an excellent narration & I particularly liked his Russian accent for Manny (though I don't know if a character who is 3rd generation Luna with a name like Manuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis is supposed to be Russian!).
None of these complaints are to say that Harsh Mistress is a straight-up bad book. As with any Heinlein book, it offers a lot of food for thought and fodder for argument. Belongs to SeriesWorld As Myth (Prequel) Belongs to Publisher SeriesBastei LĂĽbbe SF (24191) Gallimard, Folio SF (320) Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy (3132/3133) SF Masterworks (72) — 3 more Is contained inContainsIs a (non-series) prequel toHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
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HTML: Revolution is brewing on twenty-first-century Luna, a moon-based penal colony where oppressed "Loonies" are being exploited by a harsh Authority that controls it from Earth. Against all odds, a ragtag collection of dissidents has banded together in revolt, including a young female radical, an elderly academic, a one-armed computer jock, and a nearly omnipotent supercomputer named Mike, whose sentience is known only to this inner circle and who is committed to the revolution for reasons of his own. Drawing many historical parallels with the War of Independence, Heinlein's fourth Hugo Awardâ??winning novel is a gripping tale bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom. Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, winning the Hugo Award for best novel a record four times. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels and is widely considered his finest work. No library descriptions found.
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