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Gerrold, David. Bouncing Off the Moon. Dingilliad No. 2. Tor, 2001.
David Gerrold is an old hand as a television writer and novelist—from “The Trouble with Tribbles” in the original Star Trek series to 2019’s Ganny Knits a Spaceship. In 2000, he decided to update some Heinlein—in particular in Bouncing Off the Moon, The Rolling Stones and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress—making the family more dysfunctional, adding a dollop of gender diversity, and bringing the AI into the quantum computer era. Bouncing is full of fun speculations about how we might live on the Moon, especially if the justice system is libertarian, the way Heinlein would have wanted it to be. Gerrold’s Russian conman, Alexi, seems modeled more on Cyrano Jones than anyone Heinlein ever created, but his judge in the climactic court case would be right at home in many of the master’s worlds. Gerrold and Spider Robinson should get together for some more Heinlein fun before it is too late.
David Gerrold is an old hand as a television writer and novelist—from “The Trouble with Tribbles” in the original Star Trek series to 2019’s Ganny Knits a Spaceship. In 2000, he decided to update some Heinlein—in particular in Bouncing Off the Moon, The Rolling Stones and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress—making the family more dysfunctional, adding a dollop of gender diversity, and bringing the AI into the quantum computer era. Bouncing is full of fun speculations about how we might live on the Moon, especially if the justice system is libertarian, the way Heinlein would have wanted it to be. Gerrold’s Russian conman, Alexi, seems modeled more on Cyrano Jones than anyone Heinlein ever created, but his judge in the climactic court case would be right at home in many of the master’s worlds. Gerrold and Spider Robinson should get together for some more Heinlein fun before it is too late.
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