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** Sidris, one of Mannie's wives, is implied to be very black. Another Ludmilla is implied to be very pale.
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Mannie has a cybernetic arm which can be swapped out for other prosthetics.
* [[You Fail Economics Forever]]: There's some disagreement over the economics of Luna being able to produce a measurable chunk of Earth's food (if it does). See the [[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress/Headscratchers|Headscratchers]] entry for details.▼
* [[You Fail Law Forever]]: Embodied by the redneck sheriff who arrests Mannie on vice charges for his membership in a group marriage that is perfectly legal on the Moon. It turns out to have been {{spoiler|1=provoked on purpose by Stuart LaJoie}} in order to {{spoiler|stir up sympathy on Luna.}}▼
** Also, it's later stated that what got the judge fired up enough to try such a blatantly ridiculous case is that he was incensed by the "range of color" in Mannie's family.▼
* [[Author Appeal]]: Heinlein's politics ''and'' Heinlein's ideas of sexuality.
* [[Author Filibuster]]: Discreet, but there, especially on race and sexuality.
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* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Apparently believed of Cyborgs, as even Mannie refers to them as "ex-humans."
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: When a new bunch of Earth soldiers is transferred to Luna, female revolutionaries take to walking around very nearly naked (not at all uncommon on the Moon) right in front of them to keep them from doing their jobs. Their boss ''begged'' for them to have their own women, brought up from Earth, but was refused; a group of soldiers finally snapping and attacking one of the women is the spark that ignites the Revolution early.
* [[Emergent Human]]: Mike, in some ways.▼
* [[Elite Mooks]]: The Peace Dragoons who are sent from Earth to pacify Luna. After a group of them {{spoiler|rape and murder a Loonie woman}}, however, there's no chance for them.
▲* [[Emergent Human]]: Mike, in some ways.
* [[Everything Is Online]]: ''Despite'' there being no official internet. That's what happens when a sentient computer is in charge of the phone switches and the printing presses.
* [[Fan Service]]: Actually used as a revolutionary tactic; see [[Distracted by the Sexy]], above.
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* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Both played (somewhat) straight and subverted: The group outright fabricates events, lies to the Lunar citizens on multiple occasions, steals from their own people, fakes assassination attempts and bombings, and provokes riots, shootings, and a rape/murder (although ''definitely'' not on purpose); and only plays by the rules they set for themselves when it is convenient to do so, in order to turn public opinion against the (already unpopular) Lunar Authority. Yet they warn ahead of time of their targets for orbital bombardment and attempt to shed no innocent blood on Earth. This isn't done for altruistic purposes, but because if they did, Earth would squash them like bugs in retaliation. And, in the words of one character: "Whenever possible, leave room for your enemies to become your friends."
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]: Played with. The [[Power Trio]] is well aware that the Lunar Authority is not evil, but they do their damnedest to make sure the Loonies think it is.
* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]: Referred to as "Elimination." Mannie meets Stu because a group of [[Street Urchin|Street Urchins]] wanted to do this to him. Fortunately for Stu, they decided to find a judge first to make it all proper, and Mannie agreed to adjudicate.▼
** This may have had something to do with an apparently recent incident where a man who was having a loud argument with a woman that involved sex was eliminated. Then the group found out that he hadn't assaulted the woman, she was a prostitute and he was just being difficult about paying up.▼
* [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence]]: Mike starts off as a Brick, but by the time the novel begins he displays all the traits of a Robo-Monkey, and by the novel's end has worked his way clear to Nobel Bot. He becomes so human that Manny, the novel's protagonist, wonders if he is truly alive, and if he has a soul.
* [[Superweapon Surprise]]: The Loonies' primary weapon in their war for independence is a catapult originally used to ship grain from Luna to Earth without having to make costly space flights.
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* [[Terminally Dependent Society]]
* [[Theme Naming]]: Sherlock Holmes characters for Mike.
▲* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]: Referred to as "Elimination." Mannie meets Stu because a group of [[Street Urchin|Street Urchins]] wanted to do this to him. Fortunately for Stu, they decided to find a judge first to make it all proper, and Mannie agreed to adjudicate.
▲** This may have had something to do with an apparently recent incident where a man who was having a loud argument with a woman that involved sex was eliminated. Then the group found out that he hadn't assaulted the woman, she was a prostitute and he was just being difficult about paying up.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: When the Loonies announced that they were going to bombard Cheyenne mountain a few thousand people came to watch.
* [[Virtual Celebrity]]: Adam Selene, Mike's alter ego as "head" of the revolution. Possibly the [[Ur Example]].
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]
▲* [[You Fail Economics Forever]]: There's some disagreement over the economics of Luna being able to produce a measurable chunk of Earth's food (if it does). See the [[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress/Headscratchers|Headscratchers]] entry for details.
▲* [[You Fail Law Forever]]: Embodied by the redneck sheriff who arrests Mannie on vice charges for his membership in a group marriage that is perfectly legal on the Moon. It turns out to have been {{spoiler|1=provoked on purpose by Stuart LaJoie}} in order to {{spoiler|stir up sympathy on Luna.}}
▲** Also, it's later stated that what got the judge fired up enough to try such a blatantly ridiculous case is that he was incensed by the "range of color" in Mannie's family.
* [[Zeerust]]: Mike, despite being the most powerful computer in existence, does his calculations on printing paper. Because he doesn't have a screen. At the same time, he creates a perfect digital human representation of himself for remote video conferences, and taps into any (phone, etc.) communication port to share and receive information, pretty much inventing 3D computer graphics, virtual acting and ''the internet''. In a book written in the '60s.
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