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{{Short description|1950 collection of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein}}
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 | name          = The Man Who Sold the Moon
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 | image         = File:The Man Who Sold the Moon.jpg
 | caption       = First edition cover
 | author        = [[Robert A. Heinlein]]
 | illustrator   = 
 | 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 
 | oclc          = 1933095
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Man Who Sold the Moon'' (short story collection)}}
'''''The Man Who Sold the Moon''''' is the title of a 1950 collection of [[science fiction]] [[short story|short stories]] by American writer [[Robert A. Heinlein]].

The stories, part of Heinlein's [[Future History (novel)|Future History]] series, appear in the first edition as follows:

* Introduction by [[John W. Campbell, Jr.]], editor of ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]''
* Foreword by Robert A. Heinlein
* "[[Let There Be Light (Heinlein short story)|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 (short story)|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.

==Reception==
[[Anthony Boucher|Boucher]] and [[J. Francis McComas|McComas]] praised the 1950 edition as Heinlein "at his superlative best".<ref>"Recommended Reading," ''[[F&SF]]'', February 1951, p.59</ref> 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.<ref>"Books", ''[[F&SF]]'', April 1960, p.99</ref> [[P. Schuyler Miller]] said that "Heinlein is a master of concealed technology&nbsp;... 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".<ref>"Book Reviews", ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]''. March 1951, p.144-45</ref>

== Citations ==
{{Reflist}}

== General and cited references ==
* {{Cite book |last=Chalker |first=Jack L. |authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings |year=1998 |title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998 |location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore |publisher=Mirage Press |pages=593}}

==External links==
* {{ISFDB title|id=31918}}
* {{OL work|id=59717W|cname=''The Man Who Sold the Moon''}}

{{Future History}}

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