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by Robert A. Heinlein
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Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it 12 years ago
9/2012 Fun to revisit this just as election season gets underway in the US. Makes me want to print up a TANSTAAFL! flag of my own. Brilliant with pockets of misogyny.8/2011 The story is every bit as good as I remembered. I think that Heinlein had a huge impact when I was forming my own political op...
target acquired
target acquired rated it 13 years ago
do you play games where you know the outcome of the game itself is without question... where any fun to be had is not so much in the winning - that's predetermined - but in figuring out how exactly you will win, what moves you will make, how you will overcome all those minor hurdles along the way? t...
thomcat
thomcat rated it 13 years ago
Just as much fun as I remember it being 30+ years ago, with a little more politics.
Pants' Books & Stuff!
Pants' Books & Stuff! rated it 14 years ago
(review originally posted on my livejournal account: http://intoyourlungs.livejournal.com)I've mentioned this before and I'll say it again: I'm so glad that I've joined these different online book clubs. It's pushed me to read titles I never would have picked up on my own, and so far, I've enjoyed p...
Xdyj's books
Xdyj's books rated it 14 years ago
Definitely one of the most impressive and unforgettable sf novel I've ever read. This is an amazing story about typical Heinleinian revolution & Heinleinian libertarian (and in some sense, the limitation of the latter. After all, TANSTAAFL).
FriedEgg
FriedEgg rated it 14 years ago
This is your anarchist's revolutionary handbook. If you're being oppressed by imperialist overlords that treat you little better than slaves and you want to organise a revolt to liberate yourselves, this is an ideal guide to doing everything from setting up an effective underground communications ne...
Tower of Iron Will
Tower of Iron Will rated it 15 years ago
Heinlein's best novel is about a libertarian revolution on the moon lead by a sentient computer.
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 15 years ago
mp3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gjvFMuCQ2IAbout time I got around to this and after listening to the first disc, realise that I am my own worst enemy for denying myself for so long - already love it.
wealhtheow
wealhtheow rated it 16 years ago
Moon is used as a penal colony. Generations of "Loonies" have grown up knowing nothing but minimal gravity, rigid social conventions, and the grasping Lunar Authority. The Loonies are tired of being Earth's grain producers without receiving appropriate recompence, but have no political power or we...
Autumn Adventures
Autumn Adventures rated it 16 years ago
Social engineering science fiction from the master. My favorite character, hands down, was Mycroft, a self-aware computer (yes, artificial intelligence) who would have rather played a practical joke or tell a joke, than mastermind a revolution. Only a couple of technologies (typewriters and non-di...
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