Epic, Science fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Moon, Penal colonies, Revolutions, Artificial intelligence, Space flight to the moon, Space colonies 

Overview: Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work. It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people-a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic-who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success. 

Genre/Form: Science fiction
Hugo Award
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert A Heinlein
ISBN: 0312863551 9780312863555 0312861761 9780312861766 0613262654 9780613262651 9781451784022 1451784023
OCLC Number: 37336037
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Awards: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, 1983.
Hugo Award for Best Novel, 1967.
Description: 382 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents: Book 1: That dinkum thinkum --
Book 2: Rabble in arms --
Book 3: TANSTAAFL!
Responsibility: Robert A. Heinlein.