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Writing a review about a Robert Heinlein novel is a difficult and daunting task. His works are enjoyed by a wide variety of people who otherwise have very little in common. There is plenty in his politics to offend both liberals and conservatives. His sexual mores were, shall we say, liberated in the extreme. But coupled with those mores was a passionate devotion to children and the family concept that would give the "free love" crowd great pause. His works range from classic 1930's era pulp Sci-fi, to the bizarre, to well thought-out political and social commentary, laced with believable science and engineering.
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"The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" falls into the third category. It is a well reasoned, fast paced book about a time in the not all too distant future when the Moon, (like Australia of a couple centuries past) is used as a penal colony. By the time of the story, there are an abundance of free people on the Moon -- either convicts who have discharged their sentences, or descendents of previous "residents" -- and these people begin a revolt not unlike our own American Revolution.
Throughout the novel, Heinlein comments (strongly, at times) on matters of law, justice, social equality, personal responsibility, and sex.
I could not put this book down.
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Tom Clancyhas said of Robert A. Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. 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. 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.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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