Cover artist Hubert Rogers Publication date 1950 Pages 299 Originally published 1950 Page count 299 Publisher Shasta Publishers | Language English Media type Print (Hardback) OCLC 1933095 Genre Science Fiction Country United States of America | |
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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:
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". 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. 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".