The famous science-fiction novel by the genre's grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein Awarded Highest Genre Award
The year is 2076: A moon functioning as a penal colony of Earth. Inmates make their own rules for survival in a harsh and hostile environment.
The inhabitants of Luna, called. Moonies, they send grain shipments to Earth and in return receive the necessary resources for life on the Moon. The order of the penal colony is kept by moon guards and bureaucrats from Earth. And the situation is getting progressively worse.
If the Moonies do not resist Earth's tyranny, resource depletion and the ensuing apocalypse await them.
A group of antiheroes - working with Luna's central computer - lead the rebellion and, despite their slim chance of success, ignite a flame of defiance that will change the future of the entire lunar and terrestrial world.