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Rent The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-MP3, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Jun 1997
Genre: Fiction - Fantasy - Epic
Retail Price: $16.99
Pages: 384
Synopsis
Tom Clancy has 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.
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.