The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection)
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The Man Who Sold the Moon is the title of a 1950 collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.
The stories, part of Heinlein's
Future History
series, appear in the first edition as follows:
- Introduction by Astounding Science Fiction
- Foreword by Robert A. Heinlein
- "Let There Be Light" (1940; originally published in Super Science Stories)
- "The Roads Must Roll" (1940; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)
- "The Man Who Sold the Moon" (1950; first appearance is in this collection)
- "Requiem" (1940; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)
- "Life-Line" (1939; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)
- "Blowups Happen" (1940; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction)
Early paperback printings omitted "Life-Line" and "Blowups Happen", as well as Campbell's introduction.
Reception
F&SF, Damon Knight selected The Man Who Sold the Moon as one of the 10 best science fiction books of the 1950s.[2] P. Schuyler Miller said that "Heinlein is a master of concealed technology ... no other writer [has] worked out the scientific minutiae of his settings so fully or so unobtrusively", praising as well Heinlein's skill at crafting "the human engineering details of each situation".[3]
References
- F&SF, February 1951, p.59
- F&SF, April 1960, p.99
- Astounding Science Fiction. March 1951, p.144-45
Sources
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 593.
External links
- The Man Who Sold the Moon title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Man Who Sold the Moon at Open Library
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