The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection)

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