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5 unusual facts about The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress


Fifth International

More sympathetic Fifth Internationalists appear in Henlein's later The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, where they are one of the assorted groups involved in the war of independence waged by the human-colonised Moon.

Hiram Yeager

The computer personality of MAX is similar to another well known computer-personality, "Mike" from the 1966 Robert A. Heinlein novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.

Loglan

This has been thought to make it suitable for humancomputer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast (1980).

Loglan was mentioned in a couple of science fiction works: Robert A. Heinlein’s well-known books The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and The Number of the Beast, and Robert Rimmer’s utopian book Love Me Tomorrow (1978).

M.U.L.E.

Another Heinlein novel, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, provided the decision to not have any government or external authority.



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