The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress story
The story follows a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth.
30 total · 2 choice · 9 major · 19 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| revolution in society | choice | The story followed a group of revolutionaries on the Moon who, with the help of a powerful sentient computer, hatched (and executed) a plot to overthrow the Earth-backed Lunar Authority. |
| sentient computer | choice | A HOLMES IV computer on the Moon achieved self-awareness, befriended a small group of revolutionaries, and helped them to the overthrow the Earth-backed Lunar Authority. |
| biased sex-ratio society | major | The sex-ratio on Luna about two men to each woman, resulting in polyandry being the norm. |
| colonization of the Moon | major | The Moon was colonized with the inhabitants living in underground cities. |
| diplomacy | major | Book 2 followed the revolutionaries as their attempted to negotiate with various nation of Earth to get the Moon recognized as an independent state. |
| free market vs. regulated market | major | The revolutionaries touted the virtues of unregulated free markets. In practice, a generally unregulated free market existed on the Moon except where exchange involved the Lunar Authority. |
| friendship | major | Mannie and Mike became the best of friends. |
| interplanetary war | major | Book 3 followed a war that saw the Federated Nations on Earth send armies to destroy the Lunar revolution. |
| polyamorous relationship | major | Mannie was in a type of group marriage known as a line marriage. We saw, by and large harmonious, interactions between him and his wife and one of his co-husbands. |
| resistance movement | major | Book 1 followed a group of revolutionaries on the Moon, who, operating in covert cells, plotted to overthrow the Earth-backed Lunar Authority. |