The Man Who Sold the Moon (short story collection)

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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.

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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".

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