Vintage Sci Fi: Book No.23
23 January 2016
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Book Covers, Little Red Reviewer, Robert A Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Vintage Sci Fi
No.23: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein
As part of Vintage Sci Fi month being hosted by Little Red Reviewer I’ve given myself a small challenge to post a vintage book each day – one that I’ve read – and to highlight some of the covers. Today’s choice is : The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein. First published in 1966 this story largely takes place on the Moon which is used by the Earth as a self policing penal colony. I think my favourite amongst these covers are the three later ones.
1966 first Edition:
1968 Berkeley:
1979 by NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY:
1981 Berkeley:
1987 by Ace Books:
1998 by New English Library:
2001 by Gollancz:
2005 by Hodder & Stoughton:
2015 by Hodder & Stoughton:
Love the 1998 cover. And the last one from Hodder & Stoughton feels like one of those “pick the one that doesn’t fit” cases 🙂
Yep, well spotted for guessing the ‘odd one out’!
Lynn 😀
I vote for the 1998 cover as well.
This novel takes me back to what I call my “SF formative years”: it might be somewhat obsolete now, in light of our modern views, but still I remember it fondly…
Yeah, I enjoyed it too. Things have moved on but even so it was a good read.
Lynn 😀
I thought it aged pretty well. Certainly has me picked to read more Heinlein.
Some great covers here, I don’t know why I picked one of the dullest (2001 gollancz) for my review…