The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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. Revolution is brewing on twenty-first-century...
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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. 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 Award-winning novel is a gripping tale bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781441740052 (1441740058)
Publish date: June 1st 2010
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 14
Edition language: English
The usual pretty crude pneumatic sex-fantasies cropped up... But women actually have a pretty dominant role in Heinlein's lunar society... It's a penal colony, and Heinlein reckons that means there are going to be far fewer women then men there - so he's come up with a system called 'line-marriage'....
This story is a sci-fi epic retelling of the American Revolution, only this time the people of the moon are rebelling against Earth and the Lunar Authority led by a sentient computer and a ragtime group of ice miner and farmers.Heinlein gives the reader some interesting ideological viewpoints about ...
This was still an interesting story but this has not aged very well and the language used kept me from enjoying this as much as my original read of this one.3 Stars for an OK read.
This was still an interesting story but this has not aged very well and the language used kept me from enjoying this as much as my original read of this one.3 Stars for an OK read.
This is not the kind of book I typically read. I picked it for the 2016 pop sugar challenge of protagonist with the same occupation. I listened to the audio version and I really enjoyed the narrator. It was definitely all politics all the time, but it didn't really annoy me much as the protagonist h...