Distilled Libertarian Goodness

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	• The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (Unabridged) Robert A. Heinlein audible.com average customer review:based on 240 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

perfect

This book arrived well before the expected date and was a great buy. I will be buying from them again.

Heinlein at his best.

"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" by Robert Heinlein rates as one of the ten best adult SF novels of all time. To put it mildly, this book was revolutionary at the time it was written. If you are a science-fiction fan, this novel is mandatory reading. If you are not a science-fiction fan, this novel should be mandatory reading.

Fair warning: this novel really is adult reading and the easily offended and various prudes have never liked it (that includes the leadership of many totalitarian nations). While it has been described as 'libertarian', it isn't, especially the military aspects. You may (?) be shocked by some of the content. If you are smart and intelligent, I guarantee that some of the content will keep you thinking for days (or weeks) after reading the book.

By the way, the science is correct and, at the time it was written, some of the science was absolutely cutting edge. The psychology is reasonably accurate and quite interesting.

Read the book!

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Distilled Libertarian Goodness

Don't pick up this book expecting a poetic tour-de-force, or a dorkily technical sci-fi creation that struggles to maintain plausibility. Instead, expect to find a fun, inventive (albeit imperfect) futuristic plot acting as a vehicle for nuggets of pure truth. Nerds won't like it, and neither will grammar nazis, but revolutionaries will love it and libertarians will re-read pages 300-305 over and over for the amazingly simple reason therein.

Story is decent, principles are sweeping and inspiring. If Harrison Bergeron woke you up, this will be just your cup of coffee.

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The moon is a harsh mistress

This is one of the better books out there that covers one of the alternative universes in Robert Heinlein's space series. The book is about a revolution that happens on the moon, when the moon wants to be free of earth influence and control. This is a standard discussion point in many of the science fiction stories out there, where colonists eventually want to be free of political or economic control of Earth. What makes this story unique is Mycroft Holms, the computer. It is the computer that runs the various environments on the moon that is the biggest support to the revolution.

The book has a lot of detail when it comes to how the revolution happens, and what it takes to overthrow power. Most of the theory used in this book can be traced back to the book he wrote about the second American revolution. Many of the standards and tactics used in that book find themselves better fleshed out in this book. That makes it a compelling read for people, what is also interesting is that there are also allusions to the Russian Revolution of 1917 as an historical template for the revolution on the moon. The other compelling part of the book is when it is tied into the book "The Cat who Walks through Walls", and other books that feature the computer, and how that timeline had evolved in light of the events in the book "The moon is a harsh mistress".

Overall, this is a very enjoyable book, dark, brooding, humorous, full of surprises, not one to keep you up reading all night, but one that is fun to read. This is truly a masterful book, and shows Heinlein's writing prose at its story telling best. Five of Five points, it is a well-written and enjoyable story.

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In the classic Hugo Award-winning book, a one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population in a revolution against Earth's colonial rule.

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