The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Hugo Award: Best Novel winner (1967).
Nebula Award: Best Novel nominee (1966).
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.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting
with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (1907–1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre in his time. He set a standard for scientific and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality.
He was one of the first science fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science fiction novelists for many decades. He, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
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