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

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

❔ why did I pick this up? Not my usual read but I love Black Mirror on Netflix and season 6 episode 3 “Beyond the Sea”, this book is recommended by the main character. 

▪️Sci-Fi classic about a lunar colony revolting against earth
⚠️ unpopular opinion maybe but a lot of it read like an old man’s sexual fantasy. He disguises it talking about the problems he predicts for future generations and veils the “but hey, women will be so spare that polygamy will be normalized and little girls will be “of age” early on!” 

Examples:

“an explosive bullet hit between her lovely, little-girl breasts.” 🤨 

“tarted to learn farming but the male co-workers got too distracted then she had to go work on beauty shop”  🙄 


✋🏼 It gets creepy real fast.

Yes the sci-fi stuff is cool and I see the allure of the story and why it’s considered an OG for sci-fi. I know it was written in the 60s yet I have to argue that even in the 60s can’t fathom an old man talking about twelve year olds breasts being considered the norm.

So yeah cool story bro but also sounds like you sneaked in all your child-bride fantasies while you were imagining the future.