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Just want to note that the novel noted in the first post, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, is a great read. I think I read it after seeing it recommended in Mary Robinette Kowal's Lady Astronaut series, but it's a nice balance of technical and science fiction with politics, almost like a condensed version of KSR's Mars Trilogy. It's mostly (not entirely) devoid of the more typical Heinlein sexism/objectification.

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It seemed to me to be a handbook on how to conduct a revolution. Much as Heinlein's Stranger from a Strange Land was a handbook on how to start a religion (hello Scientologists).

It's been a long way since I've read it, and it certainly had an interesting theme of politics and oppression. What bugged me was the description of the resistance movement: it pretended to be cleverly divided into cells, but ultimately the computer knew everything so it was pretty questionable security theater, and it didn't seem the book was particularly self-aware of that fact.

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