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The Moon Mistress
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For the novel by Robert Heinlein, see The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (book) .
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" The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress " (sometimes titled "The Moon's a Harsh Mistress") is a song by American songwriter Jimmy Webb . It has become a much-recorded standard , without ever having charted as a single. Webb appropriated the title from the 1966 science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein . [1] The song is especially associated with Glen Campbell , who performed the song on his farewell tour, [2] Judy Collins , Linda Ronstadt , and Joe Cocker , who first recorded the song in 1974.
The song is commonly presented in the key of G (to B♭). The song structure consists of three seven-line verses and a two-line coda. The first two verses have a rhyme scheme of AABACDC. The third verse modulates three half steps (from G to B♭), with the rhyme scheme altered to ABABCDC, and the coda repeating the DC. The time signature of the song is common time with the lines introduced between the second and third beat.
In a 2009 interview with Lisa Torem for Penny Black Music , Jimmy Webb talked about the influence of Robert Heinlein and the song's title:
Robert Heinlein, was a kind of early mentor of mine. I started reading his books when I was eight years old. ... I guess I was really getting more of my education out of science-fiction than out of public school. I was reading Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov and learning a great deal about the patois of the language itself and how these words were being used to create emotions. I was learning this from writers without even knowing it. ... "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" was one of the best titles I've ever heard in my life. I really am guilty of appropriating something from another writer. In this case I had contact with Robert A. Heinlein's attorneys. I said, 'I want to write a song with the title, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Can you ask Mr. Heinlein if it's okay with him?' They called me back and he said he had no objection to it. [1]
Since Joe Cocker's first recording of the song in 1974, "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" has been recorded by a variety of artists, from traditional renditions by female singers such as Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, and Joan Baez, to versions by male singers such as Glen Campbell, and Michael Feinstein. Webb recorded the song three times, in 1977 for his El Mirage album, again in 1996 for his Ten Easy Pieces album and finally in 2012 in a Duet with Joe Cocker for his 2013 album Still Within the Sound of My Voice .
The song has attracted a wide range of artists, including the Norwegian singer Radka Toneff , who recorded the song on her 1982 album Fairytales , which in a 2011 poll of Norwegian musicians was voted the best Norwegian album ever. [3] Various instrumental versions have also been recorded, including the 1997 version by Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny on the album Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) , which won a Grammy for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group.
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Paperback – July 31, 2018
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Robert A. Heinlein
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For fans of Artemis —the visionary tour de force from “one of the grand masters of science fiction” ( The Wall Street Journal ). Widely acknowledged as one of Robert A. Heinlein's greatest works, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress rose from the golden age of science fiction to become an undisputed classic—and a touchstone for the philosophy of personal responsibility and political freedom. A revolution on a lunar penal colony—aided by a self-aware supercomputer—provides the framework for a story of a diverse group of men and women grappling with the ever-changing definitions of humanity, technology, and free will—themes that resonate just as strongly today as they did when the novel was first published. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress gives readers an extraordinary, thought-provoking glimpse into the mind of Robert A. Heinlein, who, even now, “shows us where the future is” (Tom Clancy).
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow.
“My point is that one person is responsible. Always. If H-bombs exist—and they do—some man controls them. In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.”
I wasn’t impressed. As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
Praise for The Moon is a Harsh Mistress “A significant book in the history of the genre.”—Tor.com “Offers a lot of food for thought and fodder for argument...indisputably rich with ideas.”—io9 “What separates Heinlein’s writing from that of his peers: his ability to show us the inescapable humanity of technologically advanced futures.”—BooksTellYouWhy.com Praise for Robert A. Heinlein and His Novels “We proceed down the path marked by his ideas. He shows us where the future is.”—Tom Clancy “One of the grand masters of science fiction.”— The Wall Street Journal “A brilliant mind-bender...Wonderfully humanizing.”—Kurt Vonnegut “Certainly among the most influential...science fiction novel[s] of all time.”— The Guardian “This book was destined to become a bestseller, shaping the sensibilities of a generation.”— The Boston Globe “The word that comes to mind for him is essential. As a writer—eloquent, impassioned, technically innovating—he reshaped science fiction in a way that defined it for every writer who followed him...He was the most significant science fiction writer since H.G. Wells.”—Robert Silverberg “Heinlein’s genius is at its height in this timeless classic that is meaningful today as when it was written...a fast paced novel that never gets preachy. This is a definite must have, must read book.”—SF Site
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I don't claim to be a genius. Robert A. Heinlein, on the other hand, is one of the most brilliant writers the United States of America has ever produced. He starts with a kaleidoscope of colorful characters, posits a world no one living has ever experienced, then uses science to bring them together in a multilayered study of human existence. And he achieved this in every single book he wrote. Consider Mike, the supercomputer who becomes sentient and helps free the former prison colony of Luna from the tyrannical and oppressive "Authority" based on Earth. The name and character allude to "Michael", an archangel, the only archangel in the Bible clearly identified as a warrior angel. Thus it is not the least bit surprising that Mike the supercomputer comes up with and executes the strategy that helps Luna's revolution succeed. Nevertheless, the two personality traits that give his character such charm are a childlike naivete and a love of practical jokes. His naivete is so overwhelming that when he realizes the destruction brought by his strategy it renders him catatonic. Consider also Hazel Stone. She first appears in a book published almost ten years before this book (
The Rolling Stones
) as the grandmother of that book's two charming halfwit brothers. Ten years after the publication of
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
she reappears as a tertiary, yet critical character in
The Number of the Beast
, then a few years later as the central character in
The Cat Who Walks through Walls
, and finally in 1988 as a pivotal character in
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
. Hazel Stone starts out as a minor character in a book published in 1955, and becomes one of the most important members of the Long family in the four "Boondock" books where Heinlein finally brings together and reveals how his works are all bound together in a literary examination of the philosophical concept of the world as myth. Most importantly, despite evolving over four books and three decades Hazel Stone never once violates the key elements of her wildly independent, doggedly determined personality. That kind of career-long internal consistency is extremely challenging for a writer to pull off successfully. Some critics disparage Heinlein's female characters because they do not think and act like men. Somehow they never notice that when push comes to shove, it is always the women in a Heinlein book that have the most initiative, the most common sense, and the greatest ability to change the course of human history. No matter how the male characters stumble through the plot, the women always provide the missing piece of the puzzle or the critical decision that eventually wins the day. Heinlein's female characters, like Hazel Stone and Wyoming Knott, are always the focal point of the events that move a Heinlein novel forward and bring it to its conclusion. The main character of
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
, Manuel Garcia "Mannie" O'Kelly-Davis, meets Wyoming Knott at a subversive meeting he has no interest in attending. The only reason he goes is because his "thinkum dinkum" friend Mike the Supercomputer cannot observe the meeting directly and asks Manuel to attend for him and tell him about it. The meeting is interrupted by a police raid and in the course of the raid Manuel is charged with protecting Wyoming Knott, a keynote speaker invited from the Hong Kong colony. On the strength of Wyoming's kiss, ready sense of humor, and ability to win the trust of Mike, the next twenty-four hours finds Manuel drafted into leading a revolution against the Warden and the Authority that oppress Luna. One of the most brilliant strokes of genius is how through this providential meeting the reader learns that Luna is a libertarian society with no written laws while the Authority is a Soviet-style collectivist big government attempting to dictate every aspect of life in Luna. The subversives use Soviet style revolutionary titles and hierarchy, but are fighting for an American style free market economy. This reversal of roles is a literary device that keeps the reader questioning their assumptions about labels versus the genuine truths those labels are applied to. What becomes apparent only after reading the Boondock books is how
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
is a key lesson in understanding the difference between a label and the thing itself. The continuity of Hazel Stone's character is one of the powerful literary tools Heinlein uses to teach this lesson not once, but repeatedly over a period of three decades! As I said at the beginning, I am not a genius and I do not claim to be. Nonetheless, when I read some of the negative and disparaging reviews of
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
here at Amazon, it strikes me that none of the people who rated this book with one or two stars actually understood the book and several of them probably did not even bother reading it beyond the first chapter or two. Just as in every book Heinlein wrote, there is far more going on here than meets the eye. On the surface, it is a rollicking space opera of revolution and freedom. Peel back the layers and you find a critical assessment of everything that is wrong with American culture in the post war years as well as a dire warning about the civil unrest that tore through our society in the decade after this book was published. Some science fiction writers claim to be prophetic. Robert A. Heinlein actually was.
I liked so much in this story - the characters and personalities. The story is deep and engaging. I’ve read it twice so far.
This book turned out to be a little bit of a drag. The first few chapters are interesting and the dialog between Manny and Mike is satisfyingly efficient and entertaining to follow along. However, before long the singular perspective of Manny waxes monochromatic and leaves a lot of perspective to be desired. Not to mention the abrasive grammatical flow which uses abbreviations and omissions to sound, I don't know, kind of primitive and unique. The singular perspective also leaves a lot to he desired in terms of context. The structure of human society plays a huge role in the story of Recolation yet its actual practical layout is sort of glossed over or at best, implied. I struggled to understand which entities where who and which outranked or preceeded the others. Furthermore the geographical components of the story seemed important yet completely underexplained.
I often scour the forums in search of my next science fiction book to read. On more than one occasion, I have been presented with "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" as one of the greatest science fiction novels in history. The only reservations I have when dealing with novels considered "classics" are their readability. I have frequently read novels considered classics and they are disappointing and outdated. I can say in all honesty, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" is undoubtedly a classic that holds up well. 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. One thing I noticed right away was the way the Loonies use language differently than people from earth do. In fact, it threw me at first -- I couldn't figure out what was going on or why the language was so rough and unpolished and choppy. Eventually, though, I found the rhythm of it and settled in just fine -- I didn't even notice it after a while. It makes sense; Luna started off as a penal colony and has since developed completely seperate from Earth and relatively unmolested. Of course they would have their own dialect and speech patterns! To my mind, their language seems to be as efficent as possible. They trimmed away any unnecessary deadwood -- they don't use articles, for example, and very few personal pronouns, and they seem to prefer to use fragments to complete sentences. Only the essentials remain, much the same as the original colonists/prisoners had to start their lives over with only the bare ess
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