The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. New York: Putnam's, 1966. New York: Berkley, 1968. (Shorter version published in If, l965-66.)

The lunar AI computer Mike/Michelle aids the Revolution freeing the people of the Moon from Earth's jurisdiction and control. The mechanized "warrens" on the Moon are positively contrasted with the hive-world (our term) on Earth. See esp. 87 and 211 in Berkley edn. For discussions of MHM, see under Literary Criticism C. W. Sullivan's "Harlan Ellison and Robert A. Heinlein: The Paradigm Makers," and H. B. Franklin's Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction (162-70).

In his review of Omnitopia Dawn, Ed Carmien notes in that book "AI awakening akin to Heinlein's Mike" or Michelle (SFRA Review #294 [Fall 2010]: 11).[.] See also Farah Mendelsohn's The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein.

RDE, Initial Compiler, edited 29Dec18 & 5Dec19