![]() In a sense, it seems to me it fits one (not all) of Italo Calvino’s criteria for a classic. Reading it now again, I enjoyed it thoroughly. One day I discovered my father’s science fiction library and that he liked Heinlein’s works (and Asimov’s, and Van Vogt’s), and so did I.Then I read the book again when I came across libertarianism as a political philosophy, and Heinlein as one of its unlikely prophets. It was one of the first novels I read, at age 10 or so, outside the reading diet forced upon us at school. I think it is the third time, perhaps the fourth, I have read the book, and the first time I read it in English and not in the Italian translation. Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which I hadn’t re-read in years, with the secret fear I wouldn’t find it interesting again. It is overtly political, and it is an overt attempt to re-stage the American Revolution on the Moon.Ī few months ago, at the invitation of a colleague, I agreed to participate in a conference on utopia and crisis, which allows for a discussion of science fiction. You easily understand why the novel was such a sensation among libertarians, for ages. ![]()
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