The Man Who Sold the Moon, Robert A. Heinlein
The Man Who Sold the Moon, Robert A. Heinlein
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The Man Who Sold the Moon

Author: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrator: Buck Schirner

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2014


Synopsis

All-new Introduction by Mark Van Name. Two classic Robert A. Heinlein novels in one volume: The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky. Journeys into space, one taking humans to space by hook or by crook, the other the classic first-time tale of a generation vessel with passengers who do not realize they are in a spaceship.Two classic Robert A. Heinlein novels in one volume, with an all-new introduction by Mark L. Van Name, author of the Jon and Lobo military SF series.The Man Who Sold the Moon: 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…Orphans of the Sky: Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus.  But he also understood that this must be allegory for a voyage to spiritual perfection.  After all, the real world was only metal corridors and nothing else, right?  And then Hugh begins to suspect the truth. . . Two all-time classics from seven-time Hugo winner and Dean of Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein.About Robert A. Heinlein:
“Not only America's premier writer of speculative fiction, but the greatest writer of such fiction in the world.” –Stephen King. “One of the grand masters of science fiction.” –Wall Street JournalComprehensive Teacher's Guide available.

About Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A Heinlein is considered one of the Big Three of classic science fiction (along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke). Heinlein is a seven-time Hugo Award recipient and was given the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement. Heinlein’s juveniles alone have influenced generations of scientists, engineers and creators the world over (for instance, it was once estimated that everyone in the Apollo 11 mission control room had read and loved at least one Heinlein novel). His worldwide bestsellers include Have Space Suit — Will Travel, Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers, Time Enough for Love, and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Craig on May 27, 2021

This Brilliance Audio performance of Heinlein's second collection of his Future History stories (the first was The Green Hills of Earth) contains all six of the stories that were included in the original Shasta hardcover edition. I'm not wild about the orange cover (is that supposed to be David Bowi......more

Goodreads review by Manny on June 10, 2010

See, the government's never really going to organize a project that will send a man to the Moon, are they? Course not. Just a huge, bloated bureaucracy that's going to waste billions of dollars of the taxpayer's money without achieving a goddamn thing. The only way to do it is to have a smart, unscr......more

Goodreads review by Kara on June 06, 2015

More Heinlein! Not planned. It just so happened that this paperback was on the New Books shelf at the library, so I snatched it up. (In fact, it’s a double feature, with Orphans of the Sky as the second book. This edition has an afterword, two introductions to The Man Who Sold the Moon, as well as a......more

Goodreads review by Craig on May 27, 2021

My old Signet paperback edition of this second collection of Heinlein's Future History stories (the first was The Green Hills of Earth) contains four of the six stories that were included in the original Shasta hardcover edition. (The whole series is included in the omnibus The Past Through Tomorrow......more

Goodreads review by Chan on December 12, 2020

(3.5 of 5 stars) This collection of “Future History” stories was enjoyable to re-read, though my 1951 paperback was falling apart as I went through again. Despite Heinlein getting almost every guess about the future wrong, each of them was reasonable to suppose when he wrote them (three stories in 1......more