num_pages: 288
description: Tom Clancy has said of Robert A. Heinlein, "We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. He shows us where the future is." Nowhere is this more true than in Heinlein's gripping tale of revolution on the moon in 2076, where "Loonies" are kept poor and oppressed by an Earth-based Authority that turns huge profits at their expense. A small band of dissidents, including a one-armed computer jock, a radical young woman, a past-his-prime academic and a nearly omnipotent computer named Mike, ignite the fires of revolution despite the near certainty of failure and death.
language: English
title: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
titlecomplete: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
characters: Stuart Rene "Stu" LaJoie, Professor Bernardo de la Paz, Wyoming "Wyoh" Knott, Adam Selene, HOLMES IV, Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-Davis
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Politics, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Space, Novels, Hugo Awards, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 127759
places: Luna
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
publisher: New English Library Ltd