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Description: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress : Paperback : Hodder & Stoughton : 9781473616127 : 1473616123 : 23 Jun 2015 : The extraordinary objectivist science fiction classic by Robert A. Heinlein. The Book Depository The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Review: A point about the language: syntactic particles such as 'the' are seldom used. The same is true in Russian, which Heinlein's wife Ginny learned. Perhaps Lunar colonists would learn such a language. There's a smattering of influences by other cultures, such as Australia - which makes sense if the prisoners/colonists were from everywhere on Earth. Indirectly I think the novel led to the Lunar Treaties - as Mike pointed out, it's easier for a Lunar colony to attack Earth than the reverse, since they're at the top of the gravity well. That was a clever point, that a Lunar colony would possess an enormous tactical advantage. It's *hard* to get out of a gravity well. It's very easy to get *into* one. The reasons for the revolution were very well laid-out and made perfect sense. Mike did, too. It's not impossible that such a self-aware entity could arise; I recall an episode of Equinox which dealt with AT & T before it was broken up - its network kept finding routing solutions spontaneously. I wonder what it might eventually have become. Maybe the Internet will go the same way. Maybe it has, and no-one's noticed... Some parts of the novel are a little dated, but it's still an excellent read. In fact the example of Mike helped me on my degree course with an assignment for the AI course; I used his example to prove a point - in fact I argued the complete opposite of what the assignment was supposed to be about! - and as an example of what AI could and hopefully will be one day. I got a good grade. Mike was a friend to mankind. We'd better hope the Internet (whatever it becomes or has already become) will be, too.
Author: Annie
Rating: 2
Review: My only previous Heinlein book was read many years ago and I didn't like that either. I remember very little about it except that it was sexist and uninteresting. I found The Moon is a Harsh Mistress to be excessively tedious and dreary to read. I did get to the end but have now regretted the time spent on it. I appreciate that there are a lot of ideas in it, political and otherwise but found that I couldn't care less about them because of the way the book was written. I just cannot understand all the eulogies to it. I can say with certainty that this was the last Heinlein book that I will ever read.
