First published in 1950 Latest edition: 2000 Publisher: Baen Books Paperback ISBN 0671578634 Previous editions Foreign editions

Are you interested in this book? Just click here to get it at Collected in this volume: "Life-Line" "Let There Be Light" "The Roads Must Roll" "Blowups Happen" "The Man Who Sold the Moon" "Requiem" The Man Who Sold the Moon contains part of the 'Future History' stories found in The Past through Tomorrow. Excerpts "When I was a kid practically nobody believed that men would ever reach the Moon. You have seen rockets all your lives, and the first to reach the Moon got there before you were a young boy. When I was a boy they laughed at the idea.     "But I believed--I believed. I read Verne, and Wells, and Smith, and I believed that we could do it--that we would do it. I set my heart on being one of the men to walk the surface of the Moon, to see her other side, and to look back on the face of the Earth, hanging in the sky.     "I used to go without my lunches to pay my dues in the American Rocket Society, because I wanted to believe that I was helping to bring the day nearer when we would reach the Moon. I was already an old man when that day arrived. I've lived longer than I should, but I would not let myself die . . . I will not!--until I have set foot on the Moon." Back to The Heinlein Book Bin Index