I’ve read Robert Heinlein many times before, but never one of his most famous novels, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”
Published in 1966, the first-person story walks us through the revolt of a colony on the moon against the earth. The colony was founded as a prison, like Australia’s origins. Right away, the dialect hits you as different, and then we have a computer “waking up” and first supporting and then helping orchestrate revolution… to the point of bombing Earth from above.
Very human point of view, but definitively different point of view throughout. The computer gets named, and loved, and missed. The protagonist, Manny, is abstracted, and addressed by the ever-more-human computer as “Man.” Hardly accidental, and Manny is an amputee, with an array of specialized left arms to carry out different tasks. Both are “heroes” of the story, but their souls are not so different.
Now I’m back in a non-fiction book, but fun read.