The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
288 pages
|Published: 2 Jun 1966
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ISBN: 9780340837948
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date: 14 March 2005
Description
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt's inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.
