A review by chaosetc
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

4.0

This is a tough one. The story is good, very engaging. But the social structure of the people on Luna seems like pure fantasy. The author's personal utopia perhaps. I guess I can appreciate this approach in that he didn't follow the far more predictable dog-eat-dog scenario. I'm also a bit stunned that he kept referring to computer printouts when they also had AI. Perhaps the author was just trying to show how low-tech the lunar colony had to be, but I had trouble suspending disbelief on that particular point, especially since it came up throughout the book. Would portable memory storage really be all that advanced? In any case, I enjoyed the book and was surprised to find that the story was never made into a movie, in spite of three separate attempts. I suppose it's too late now, we probably expect sci-fi to go farther than the moon these days.