) First edition cover | |
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Hubert Rogers |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Shasta Publishers |
Publication date | 1950 |
| 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]
References
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