> Elon Musk is a bad reader of sci-fi: he idolises Kim Stanley Robinson but ignores his socialist politics, and overlooks speculative traditions such as feminist and Afrofuturist sci-fi.
> However, Musk is a careful reader of one author: Robert A. Heinlein. He named Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress from 1966 as one of his favourite novels.
> The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a libertarian classic second only to Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in its propaganda value for neoliberal capitalism.
> Musk is so mired in the book’s ideology that his solution to everything is an invention developed and marketed by rogue geniuses in the private sector.
> However, Musk is a careful reader of one author: Robert A. Heinlein. He named Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress from 1966 as one of his favourite novels.
> The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a libertarian classic second only to Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in its propaganda value for neoliberal capitalism.
> Musk is so mired in the book’s ideology that his solution to everything is an invention developed and marketed by rogue geniuses in the private sector.