The Man Who Sold the Moon

from jseger9000

Even though I like reading science fiction, I somehow passed Robert Heinlein by. I'd read Tunnel in the Sky a few years back and that was about it. To rectify that I picked up this collection of some of his very earliest stories The Man Who Sold the Moon. These stories make up part of his 'Future...

from leore_joanne

My favourite story was the one about the roads. I enjoyed this story collection, but I found it in need of a bit of touching up, the grammar is tangled at points and the story hard to entangle. I suspect that this is because these are earlier writings of his. The writing was much better in one of...

from darlingtrk

I rate this book a little higher than it technically deserves for one reason: "Requiem". That short-story is among Heinlein's finest work, sensitive and nearly lyrical. For the most part, its prequil, "The Man Who Sold the Moon," does not measure up. It is classic Heinlein, fun but unpolished. Th...

from darlingtrk

I rate this book a little higher than it technically deserves for one reason: "Requiem". That short-story is among Heinlein's finest work, sensitive and nearly lyrical. For the most part, its prequil, "The Man Who Sold the Moon," does not measure up. It is classic Heinlein, fun but unpolished. Th...

from burningtodd

A Collection of the first of Heinlein's future history collection. This collection of short stories deals with the beginning of space flight, the invention of solar panels, the development of moving roads as well as the pioneers of extra terrestrial living. Heinlein, as always, mixes amazing tech...