The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Audiobook)

from bookworm12

Set on the moon, where a Lunar colony has been established for years, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress explores what happens when a society is left to determine its own rules. What began as a working prison of sorts has now become a true society. Years earlier, convicts were shipped to the moon from ...

from Unreachableshelf

This is quite possibly Heinlein's greatest work, and certainly the least preachy of his great works that I have read to date. Heinlein's characters have never truly had human flaws, and this book is no exception, but these characters at least seem to be operating within more reasonable areas of e...

from uvula_fr_b4

Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is an anarcho-libertarian manifesto thinly disguised as a science fiction novel; it also happens to be one of his better later works (published as a novel in 1966, it was serialized in a shorter form beginning in 1965 in The Worlds of If magazine)...

from santhony

This Robert Heinlein classic has been described as science fiction with a political slant. In my opinion, it can be more accurately described as a political work set on the moon. In a nutshell, the Moon is developed as a penal colony. After three or four generations, the inhabitants have begun to...

from HippieLunatic

I don't know that I have anything new to say in praise of this novel. So instead, I will say, I would never have imagined myself so heartsick over the loss of a computer until now. Goodbye, dear Mike. I shall miss you, too. Heinlein is able to explore a world of politics, revolution, love, family...