Looks like Bryan Singer will be making a film adaptation based on the Heinlein novel. Has anyone here read it?

http://www.thewrap.com/bryan-singer-to-d...harsh-mistress/

I remember hearing about it but it was never considered one of the "big" SF novels of the era, so I missed it. So far anyway.



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I'm still waiting on a good movie adaption of Starship Troopers...

But Heinlein tends to write interesting works, so if done properly it should be good. If not, at least we get to watch a really bad action film.

I don't remember hearing of it, but that doesn't indicate anything. Sounds pretty interesting, as long as they don't rewrite it to focus on the self-aware computer thing. Sounds like that's important, but not the main factor of the story.

"Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work.

It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people--a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic--who become the rebel movement's leaders. And it is the story of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to this inner circle, and who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of the high points of modern science fiction, a novel bursting with politics, humanity, passion, innovative technical speculation, and a firm belief in the pursuit of human freedom.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is the winner of the 1967 Hugo Award for Best Novel."

I think I may just read it! I need something new to read since I finished "Rendezvous with Rama".

I LOVE The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. In fact, now I'll have to buy the darn book again for my Kindle!

Dang, Amazon does not have a Kindle version of this novel! I might have to buy the paperback version.