The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection) explained

The Man Who Sold the Moon
Country:United States
Language:English
Release 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:

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]

General and cited references

. Jack L. Chalker . Mark Owings . 1998 . The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998 . Westminster, MD and Baltimore . Mirage Press . 593.

Notes and References

  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