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The moon is a harsh mistress / Robert A. Heinlein.
Van Pelt Library PS3515.E288 M66 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson), 1907-1988.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moon--Fiction.
- Moon.
- Penal colonies--Fiction.
- Penal colonies.
- Revolutions--Fiction.
- Revolutions.
- Artificial intelligence--Fiction.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Imaginary wars and battles--Fiction.
- Imaginary wars and battles.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copies)
- Physical Description:
- 382 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Orb edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Orb, 1997.
- Summary:
- A one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population in a revolution against Earth's colonial rule.
- Contents:
- That dinkum thinkum
- A rabble in arms
- "TANSTAAFL!"
- Notes:
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch: TANSTAAFL."
- Cover art: Bob Eggleton.
- A short version of this novel appeared in The Worlds of If magazine.
- Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, 1983.
- Hugo Award for Best Novel, 1967.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy 1 is 17th printing. Copy 2 is 23rd printing.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 44301
- ISBN:
- 0312863551
- 9780312863555
- OCLC:
- 37336037
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