
Publication date: | 1950 |
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Genre: | Science fiction novella |
Series: | Future History |
Preceded by: | Excursus |
Followed by: | Cliff and the Calories |
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“The Man Who Sold the Moon” is a science fiction novella by Robert A. Heinlein published in 1950. A part of his “Future History” and prequel to “Requiem,” it covers events around a fictional first Moon landing, in 1978.
Exposition
D.D.Harriman is a billionaire with a dream—the dream of space for all mankind. The method? Anything that works. Maybe, in fact, Harriman goes too far. But he will give us the stars…