The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
A lunar penal colony revolts against the authority that governs and exploits it.
A lunar colony of exiles and their descendants, governed and exploited from Earth, decides to revolt. Heinlein tells it through a computer technician, a one-armed man and a self-aware computer named Mike, in a clipped colloquial voice that carries the politics lightly. It won the Hugo Award and supplied the acronym TANSTAAFL, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
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Orson Scott Card
This account of a revolutionary struggle between lunar colonists – many of whom came there (or their parents did) as exiles and prisoners – and the exploitative government agency that controls their lives is, like Foundation, a working out of historical forces. But Heinlein sticks with a cast of a few main characters and, with a charmingly colloquial writing style, makes us care about them all.
Interview · October 2011
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