The Moon is A Harsh Mistress

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.

Space camp prison fun time So we have AI, use of food as a weapon of war, philosophy, how probability influences human decisions and satirizing statistics, rebellion, how to treat colonies right or wrong and what true independence means with many side blows on history, emancipation by imbalance of s......more

Ah, Heinlein: SF's great paradox artist. I am fairly certain that I have personally held every possible wrong viewpoint on the man. Namely, that he was: 1) A radically forward-thinking visionary of libertarianism 2) A raging fascist, homophobe, and misogynist 3) Any point on the sociopolitical spectrum......more

"They kept hooking hardware into him - decision-action boxes to let him boss other computers...Human brain has around ten-to-the-tenth neurons. By third year Mike had better than one and a half times that many neurons." One of the presents for my mother several Christmases ago was an Amazon Echo (Ale......more

do you play games where you know the outcome of the game itself is without question... where any fun to be had is not so much in the winning - that's predetermined - but in figuring out how exactly you will win, what moves you will make, how you will overcome all those minor hurdles along the way? t......more

What do you want us to do? Throw rocks at them? Nah, but we could have a tea party. Wow. I'm still amazed at how good this Revolution novel has held up over the years. I had read it twice before this latest re-read, but it hasn't lost any of its charm. Of course, I love Heinlein's heavy reliance on sel......more