top | item 30345810 (no title) Meerax | 4 years ago The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress reference? discuss order hn newest RegBarclay|4 years ago That was my first thought. I haven't seen The Expanse, but in any case, Heinlein preceded The Expanse by decades. Cthulhu_|4 years ago Science Fiction Science Fiction? It gets a bit meta there...but yeah, something something, shoulders of giants. TecoAndJix|4 years ago It is a reference to The Expanse (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/) tehbeard|4 years ago ...no?In The Expanse it was rocks from the belt coated in "stolen" Mars stealth material.Luna's a UN colony, practically on Earth's doorstep, not a beligerent.The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the reference. gerikson|4 years ago The Expanse authors got it from Heinlein, which was what I was referencing ;)
RegBarclay|4 years ago That was my first thought. I haven't seen The Expanse, but in any case, Heinlein preceded The Expanse by decades. Cthulhu_|4 years ago Science Fiction Science Fiction? It gets a bit meta there...but yeah, something something, shoulders of giants.
Cthulhu_|4 years ago Science Fiction Science Fiction? It gets a bit meta there...but yeah, something something, shoulders of giants.
TecoAndJix|4 years ago It is a reference to The Expanse (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/) tehbeard|4 years ago ...no?In The Expanse it was rocks from the belt coated in "stolen" Mars stealth material.Luna's a UN colony, practically on Earth's doorstep, not a beligerent.The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the reference. gerikson|4 years ago The Expanse authors got it from Heinlein, which was what I was referencing ;)
tehbeard|4 years ago ...no?In The Expanse it was rocks from the belt coated in "stolen" Mars stealth material.Luna's a UN colony, practically on Earth's doorstep, not a beligerent.The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the reference.
RegBarclay|4 years ago
Cthulhu_|4 years ago
but yeah, something something, shoulders of giants.
TecoAndJix|4 years ago
tehbeard|4 years ago
In The Expanse it was rocks from the belt coated in "stolen" Mars stealth material.
Luna's a UN colony, practically on Earth's doorstep, not a beligerent.
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is the reference.
gerikson|4 years ago