The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection)

The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection)

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name = The Man Who Sold the Moon
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image_caption = First Edition cover
author = Robert A. Heinlein
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cover_artist = Hubert Rogers
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Science fiction
publisher = Shasta Publishers
release_date = 1950
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 299 pp
isbn = NA
oclc = 1933095
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"The Man Who Sold the Moon" is the title of a 1950 collection of science fiction short stories by 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.
* 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.

External links

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References

*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| pages=593 | date=1998


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