《The moon is a harsh mistress 》作者：- Robert A. Heinlein【EPUB】

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THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert A. Heinlein For Pete and Jane Sencenbaugh Copyright 1966 by Robert A. Heinlein All rights reserved. A short version of this novel appeared in The Worlds of If magazine. Copyright 1965, 1966 by Robert A. Heinlein. SBN 425-03850-5 G.P. Putnam's-Berkley Medallion Edition, September 1968. Contents BOOK ONE THAT DINKUM THINKUM page 7 BOOK TWO A RABBLE IN ARMS page 147 BOOK THREE "TANSTAAFL!" page 245 Book One THAT DINKUM THINKUM 1 I see in Lunaya Pravda that Luna City Council has passed on first reading a bill to examine, license, inspect--and tax--public food vendors operating inside municipal pressure. I see also is to be mass meeting tonight to organize "Sons of Revolution" talk-talk. My old man taught me two things: "Mind own business" and "Always cut cards." Politics never tempted me. But on Monday 13 May 2075 I was in computer room of Lunar Authority Complex, visiting with computer boss Mike while other machines whispered among themselves. Mike was not official name; I had nicknamed him for Mycroft Holmes, in a story written by Dr. Watson before he founded IBM. This story character would just sit and think--and that's what Mike did. Mike was a fair dinkum thinkum, sharpest computer you'll ever meet. Not fastest. At Bell Labs, Bueno Aires, down Earthside, they've got a thinkum a tenth his size which can answer almost before you ask. But matters whether you get answer in microsecond rather than millisecond as long as correct? Not that Mike would necessarily give right answer; he wasn't completely honest. When Mike was installed in Luna, he was pure thinkum