The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
38 people recommended it in 23 threads, 2008–2023.
What people on Hacker News said
Every Heinlein I've read after that has just gone on and contributed to who I am as person today: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land (both editions), To Sail Beyond the Sunset, et al. It's almost literally impossible for me to overstate how much Heinlein's works has shaped who I am as a person, regardless of whatever flaws others might ascribe to his work.
Perhaps Heinlein helped me to change from approaching the world as it was presented to me to approaching it as I actually saw and see it.
In contrast, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is a solid book all the way through.
Both are fantasitc. SICP on a technical level and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress on a fiction level.
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