The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000JJRW80 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 471 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. 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.. 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. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels and is wide
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. 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. Tom Clancy has said of Robert A. . Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas
Revolution, political philosophy, and rock throwing TChris The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a great title. Is it a great book? I don’t think it is Heinlein’s best, but I enjoyed it when I read it in my teens, and probably enjoyed it more in a recent rereading. Fans of Heinlein’s political philosophy will find much to admire here, while reader. "There is more here than meets the eye" according to Brian K. Miller. I don't claim to be a genius. Robert A. Heinlein, on the other hand, is one of the most brilliant writers the United States of America has ever produced. He starts with a kaleidoscope of colorful characters, posits a world no one living has ever experienced, then uses science to bring them together in. One of my favorite SciFi writers Someplace Else One of my favorite SciFi writers. I have just about every one of his books. In fact I'm now ordering them again in hard cover where I can find them as most I collected as a teenager in paperback years ago.Fast paced and holds up against time and if anything is more Prescient now that all this time has