The Stars Are Also Fire

Larry Niven called Harvest of Stars a masterpiece.
Now Poul Anderson returns to the same brilliantly conceived future to tell a story of revolution and liberation on the Moon.
In the early days of the next century, Dagney Beynac, descendant of the legendary Anson Guthrie, becomes a heroine of a new Lunarian civilization that struggles to break free of the influence of Earth. Centuries later, fragments of humanity search for some way to survive in a system that no longer seems to hold a place for them. The only solution lies in Dagney's distant past.