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 stories by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.

The stories, part of Heinlein's 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" (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" (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
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".