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Rent The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Narrator: Lloyd James
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: Jun 2010
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction - General
Retail Price: $29.95
Synopsis
Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science-fiction writer of his era, winning the Hugo Award for best novel a record four times. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels and is widely considered his finest work.
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. 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.
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.
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Reviews
Moon is Harsh is a fascinating look back 40 years at the ***umptions of technological progress and social change that existed as the Viet Nam war was ending so disgust and contempt for government was growing towards the attitudes widely held today. Heinlein was a hard core libertarian and that really comes through here. But aside from the revealing sentiments of his characters, Heinlein has constructed a fun, suspensful action story. Lloyd James does a competitent if uninspired job of reading the story and providing most of the characters with distinct and appropriate voices.