Review: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein

3/23/2013

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book surprised me. I hadn't read any Heinlein works before, and I had him pegged as a "minor" sci-fi author. Obviously I was wrong, at least regarding this book.

As a writer, I appreciate how he uses chopped-up english and russian terms to create a very specific language that acts as a way of immersing the reader in his world. Also, the technicalities of the moon are pretty well thought-out (for the time it was written) and it makes for an extremely interesting rumination on revolution, social control and propaganda (or realpolitiks, to sum it up).

The only weak spot I found is that the ending is not as powerful as it could have been, though it does portray the motto of the whole book: TANSTAAFL.

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Alejandro Gamen es el autor de varias novelas, cuentos, artículos y opiniones contradictorias. Actualmente satisface sus necesidades creativas escribiendo varios libros a la vez (de acuerdo a qué lo inspire), desarrolla conceptos de videojuegos y tv mientras se ducha, lee en la fila del supermercado y básicamente invierte una cantidad enorme de tiempo en palabras escritas.

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