***WARNING***
This writeup discusses things that may ruin some suprises for you, if you haven't read the book
***ACHTUNG***
Aside from Mycroft the
AI,
libertarian politics and
TANSTAAFL this book has something else that makes it a classic. Namely,
launching big fucking rocks at
Earth from the
Moon. I know this sounds like I just picked out the most
crass sci-fi plot device in a book that was more about
humanity and
politics, but look at it from the perspective of the
colonists on the
Moon. What advantage did the
Moon have that the
Earth didn't? A shallow
gravity well. What did the colonists have in abundance?
Big rocks. To me, it was
beautiful in its
simplicity.