#it's 2007 and we have flying cars and fire-guns and the Iron Curtain is intact and Manhattan is a crater
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cracking open “Are Women Human?” as a palate cleanser after reading Robert A. Heinlein
#this is only kind of a joke#in that I won't be breaking into Dorothy L Sayers just yet#but my STARS Robert!!!#I do not remember The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress being this bad. there are things I still remember and like about it.#so I was actually kind of excited to start this story#but then#but then the main character and his new female partner spent all of one day on a mission and one night reading files in a library#and suddenly she's kissing him?#(I did appreciate how every time she's searched or unpacks or anything we rediscover her arsenal. that's actually fun)#I cheered when the aliens starting killing people because at last we could care about the women#instead of identifying them according to how likely the main character is to sleep with them#(naturally the plot first found an excuse to strip a room full of secret agents)#also the narrator is objectively bad#looking at all of this I probably should just give up#I spent the whole of my cleaning job rolling my eyes and muttering under my breath (but persisting because I didn't have anything else)#I really don't care about the plot#I HATE the main character#on the other hand I always love to see predictions from old sci-fi about the future#it's cool to see what they assumed would stay the same and what would change--and how#it's 2007 and we have flying cars and fire-guns and the Iron Curtain is intact and Manhattan is a crater#we can change our faces in half an hour with some cool guy in a lab coat and I bet no one is layering three camis under a t-shirt#who knows#I'll come back to this tomorrow#2024 reading list#mine
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