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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.
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** 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.
* [[Author Tract]]: This is a very political novel. If that's not your cup of tea, be prepared to skip over large portions of the book.
* [[Batman Gambit]]{{context}}
* [[Beige Prose]]: Mannie's narration is very sparse and minimal, which is simply the way Loonies talk (see [[Future Slang]]).
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|The Loonies win their independence, but Mike winds up lobotomizing himself out of existence by decentralizing life support controls. And Prof dies of a heart attack.}}
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* [[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.
** Actually ,the first known depiction of an Internet-style global data network is from the short story "A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster (''Astounding'' magazine, March 1946). 'Harsh Mistress' is still the first known depiction of CGI-created photorealistic footage and virtual actors.
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