The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection)

The Man Who Sold the Moon
	First edition cover
Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Cover artist	Hubert Rogers
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Shasta Publishers
Publication date	1950
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	299
OCLC	1933095

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 John W. Campbell, Jr., editor of 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

Boucher and McComas praised the 1950 edition as Heinlein "at his superlative best".^[1] In his "Books" column for 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]

Citations

^ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, February 1951, p.59
^ "Books", F&SF, April 1960, p.99
^ "Book Reviews", Astounding Science Fiction. March 1951, p.144-45

General and cited references

Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press. 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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[1] "Recommended Reading," F&SF, February 1951, p.59

[2] "Books", F&SF, April 1960, p.99

[3] "Book Reviews", Astounding Science Fiction. March 1951, p.144-45

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v t e Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Collections	The Man Who Sold the Moon (1950) The Green Hills of Earth (1951) Revolt in 2100 (1953) Orphans of the Sky (1963) The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Novels	Methuselah's Children (1958) The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966) Time Enough for Love (1973) The Number of the Beast (1980) The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985) To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987) The Pursuit of the Pankera (2020)
Short stories	"Life-Line" "Let There Be Light" "The Roads Must Roll" "Blowups Happen" "The Man Who Sold the Moon" "Delilah and the Space Rigger" "Space Jockey" "Requiem" "The Long Watch" "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" "The Black Pits of Luna" "It's Great to Be Back!" "—We Also Walk Dogs" "Searchlight" "Ordeal in Space" "The Green Hills of Earth" "Logic of Empire" "The Menace from Earth" "'If This Goes On—'" "Coventry" "Misfit" "Universe" "Common Sense"
Characters	Lazarus Long The Notebooks of Lazarus Long Delos D. Harriman Jubal Harshaw Competent man Maureen Johnson Andrew Jackson Libby Hazel Stone
Related	The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein (1966) Expanded Universe (1980)