The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Condition:New In the highly anticipated finale

In the highly anticipated finale

Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away―by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland

presented as a series of four "rules

and teachings channeled from a spiritual group of beings known as The Pinnacle

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Condition:New In the highly anticipated finaleRobert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest