The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein · 1966
A Lunar colony revolution told by a computer technician and a sentient AI named Mike. Heinlein's most coherent political novel, and his most enjoyable: libertarian SF at its sharpest, written before the ideology curdled.
The case against
Professor de la Paz delivers rational-anarchist seminars whenever the plot pauses, which is often. Manuel's clipped Russian-English narration charms some readers and exhausts others over three hundred pages. And the gender politics, line marriages pitched as liberation while women function mostly as scarce prizes, has aged exactly as badly as you'd guess from 1966.
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