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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312863555
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0312863551
Label: Orb Books
Manufacturer: Orb Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: June 15, 1997
Publisher: Orb Books
Studio: Orb Books
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Editorial Review:
Tom Clancy has said of Robert A. Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. He shows us where the future is." Nowhere is this more true than in Heinlein's gripping tale of revolution on the moon in 2076, where "Loonies" are kept poor and oppressed by an Earth-based Authority that turns huge profits at their expense. A small band of dissidents, including a one-armed computer jock, a radical young woman, a past-his-prime academic and a nearly omnipotent computer named Mike, ignite the fires of revolution despite the near certainty of failure and death.
Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Heinlein at his best.
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein rates as one of the ten best adult SF novels of all time. To put it mildly, this book was revolutionary at the time it was written. If you are a science-fiction fan, this novel is mandatory reading. If you are not a science-fiction fan, this novel should be mandatory reading.
Fair warning: this novel really is adult reading and the easily offended and various prudes have never liked it (that includes the leadership of many totalitarian ... Read More
Rating: - Distilled Libertarian Goodness
Don't pick up this book expecting a poetic tour-de-force, or a dorkily technical sci-fi creation that struggles to maintain plausibility. Instead, expect to find a fun, inventive (albeit imperfect) futuristic plot acting as a vehicle for nuggets of pure truth. Nerds won't like it, and neither will grammar nazis, but revolutionaries will love it and libertarians will re-read pages 300-305 over and over for the amazingly simple reason therein.
Story is decent, principles are sweeping and inspiring. ... Read More
Rating: - The moon is a harsh mistress
This is one of the better books out there that covers one of the alternative universes in Robert Heinlein's space series. The book is about a revolution that happens on the moon, when the moon wants to be free of earth influence and control. This is a standard discussion point in many of the science fiction stories out there, where colonists eventually want to be free of political or economic control of Earth. What makes this story unique is Mycroft Holms, the computer. It is the computer that runs the various ... Read More
Rating:  - A poorly written novel that is NOT about Libertarianism
The concept of a lunar colony seeking independence from the world government-supported corporation that owns it excellent. Unfortunately, that's the only excellence in this abysmally bad novel.
Heinlein uses one main character as the first person narrator, an approach I usually like. But, Heinlein gives this educated computer repairman a ridiculous speech pattern that omits definite articles, mangles grammar, and reminds me of the idiotic way that Chekov spoke in the Star Trek series.
Heinlein ... Read More
Rating: - perfect
This book arrived well before the expected date and was a great buy. I will be buying from them again.
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