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	• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert A. Heinlein Orb Books, 1997 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 239 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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. If Harrison Bergeron woke you up, this will be just your cup of coffee.

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Pure Heinlein genius

If you were ever looking for an instruction manual for a successful revolution, it also helps to have a nigh-omniscient super computer on your side as well. If you're a fan of science fiction, libertarian politics, space travel, or just interested in a damned solid, intriguing and challenging piece of literature, then pick this book up, get through a chapter, and fall in love with one fantastic book!

If you can read, I would recommend this book, and this author... This book will only enrich your life.

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This book arrived well before the expected date and was a great buy. I will be buying from them again.

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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 environments on the moon that is the biggest support to the revolution.

The book has a lot of detail when it comes to how the revolution happens, and what it takes to overthrow power. Most of the theory used in this book can be traced back to the book he wrote about the second American revolution. Many of the standards and tactics used in that book find themselves better fleshed out in this book. That makes it a compelling read for people, what is also interesting is that there are also allusions to the Russian Revolution of 1917 as an historical template for the revolution on the moon. The other compelling part of the book is when it is tied into the book "The Cat who Walks through Walls", and other books that feature the computer, and how that timeline had evolved in light of the events in the book "The moon is a harsh mistress".

Overall, this is a very enjoyable book, dark, brooding, humorous, full of surprises, not one to keep you up reading all night, but one that is fun to read. This is truly a masterful book, and shows Heinlein's writing prose at its story telling best. Five of Five points, it is a well-written and enjoyable story.

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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.

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