The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

(just a note I use voice to text because I have a neurological disorder it becomes difficult for me to type, sad to say that's a program that I am using will put capitals in the wrong places the program may believe that I am speaking a title where a sentence of few words need to be capitalized it's become tiresome to me to hunt these down, therefore, I ask your forgiveness for my improper grammar)

My thoughts on the Novel. Like many other science fiction novels that have to do with colonies, this one is no exception to the rule. In dozens of sci-fi stories, the plot is basically the same colonies separate from the planet that spawned them; in this particular novel the colony is about the Moon, of course, they called themselves Lunies from Luna. It is an entertaining novel but it is not spectacular.

I have read many of Heinlein's books, and he seems fascinated with group marriages, or as we know it polygamy marriages. I prefer to call them group marriages since his concept of marriages does not follow the standard polygamy; in this particular novel, you'll read about his concept of a group marriage as well. When this book was written America was already throwing the traditional marriage out the windows. Like most authors, they reflect the time and era and the environment that they live in through their writing. The novel was created in 1967 that like many other novels at the time came from a Serial published in various magazines.

The other concept that called my attention was the concept of the "singularity". The AI singularity. In his story, a computer becomes self-aware or sentient. At the end of his story after the Rebellion is won the singularity is gone and all that remains is the computer. The protagonist of the story asks a question that many people ask, is sentience a creation of God or just an accident.

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