The Man Who Sold The Moon.nfo
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Title.................: The Man Who Sold The Moon
Author................: Robert Heinlein
Read By...............: George Guidall
Copyright.............: 1950
Abridged..............: No
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Book Description
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Six Short-stories
"Let There Be Light" originally published in Super Science Stories magazine
in May 1940 under the pseudonym Lyle Monroe. It is the second story
in his Future History and was included in the first collection, The
Man Who Sold the Moon, but was omitted from the omnibus collection The
Past Through Tomorrow for unknown reasons.
"The Roads Must Roll" (1940) science fiction short story about wide,
rapidly moving passenger platforms (like moving sidewalks, but much
faster). These roads combine the features of highways and highway towns,
and all goes smoothly until there is union trouble.
"The Man Who Sold the Moon" (1950) follows the machinations of Delos
D. Harriman, "the first of the new robber barons," who is determined
to reach and control the Moon. The story centers on Harriman's wheelings
and dealings to accomplish his dream. "I," he tells his business partner,
we have accomplished". Harriman's determination is rooted in his childhood
desire to travel to the moon himself, but the responsibilities of running
his lunar empire may make this dream impossible.
"Requiem" (1940) The story centers around the lead character of "The
Man Who Sold The Moon", Delos David Harriman (Although it was in fact
published several years earlier than that story.). Harriman, a tycoon
and latter-day robber baron, had always dreamed of going to the Moon,
which is why he spent much of his career and resources making space
flight a practical commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, his business
partners prevented him from taking the early flights (as shown in the
novella). Now an old man, Harriman has still not been to the Moon, a
fact that frustrates him, since he lives in a world where such flights
are so commonplace that carnivals have their own Moon rockets. No longer
bound by his contractual obligations, he is now too old; every attempt
he makes to hire a rocket result in rejection because of his frail health.-
"Life-Line" is Heinlein's first published science fiction story (1939),
about a man who builds a machine that will predict how long a person
will live. It does this by sending a signal along the world line of
a person and detecting the echo from the far end.
"Blowups Happen" (1940) The story is one of the earliest in Heinlein's
Future History chronology, taking place in the late 20th century. But
for another story "Life-Line", which is not particularly relevant to
the Future History, it might actually be the earliest.
It describes the tensions amongst the staff of a nuclear reactor. Heinlein's
concept of a nuclear reactor was one of a barely contained explosion,
not the thermal piles developed later. As a consequence the work is
dangerous, and the slightest mistake could be catastrophic. All the
technical staff are monitored by psychologists who have the authority
to remove them from the work at any time lest they crack under the pressure
and precipitate a disaster. Needless to say, the monitoring itself is
part of the problem.
Source: Wikipedia
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