![]() ![]() Prof by contrast is outrageous but outrageously interesting.) Not human enough? No way the book is packed with human interest, as well as a fascinating society described inside and out, and so real that you feel that you could find your way around it without a guidebook- and you'd like to try. ![]() Talky? You bet never more entertainingly. Started to omit articles and pronouns just like dinkum comrade Manny. He prefers the juvies thinks Moon is too talky, doesn't have enough human interest. I found much of it perceptive particularly the insight that most Heinlein heroes are the same individual at three different ages: naive but promising middle-aged, pragmatic, and competent and old, cynical, and very competent.īut on one thing he's wrong, wrong, wrong: he doesn't like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I recently- well, 1994, but who's counting?- read Alexei Panshin's Heinlein in Dimension, a book Heinlein devotees- they're something of a cult on the Net- swear at. ![]() Part 1 of an occasional series of essays presenting more verbiage on books too much has been said about already Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress ![]()
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