The title story, an 89-page novella, first saw the light of day in this book.Īs little as I know, I’m able to recognize that Heinlein got a lot wrong. The interest, for such readers, will be in how well Heinlein was able to imagine space travel decades before it became a reality.Īnd not just space travel, but other technological breakthroughs as well.įive of the book’s six stories were originally published in 19, and revised a bit for this collection to account for new scientific insights as of the mid-century mark. Still, from my low (and foggy) rung on the ladder of understanding, I am able to recommend Robert Heinlein’s 1950 short story collection The Man Who Sold the Moon to anyone who does have a glimmer of how the human race has been able to send people into space and land men on the moon. When talk turns to apogees and pounds-per-second and all that stuff, a fog descends on my brain. I am pretty much an illiterate about the science of space travel.
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