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The Man Who Sold the Moon

By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Buck Schirner
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Summary

Today the moon - tomorrow the stars.

The Man Who Sold the Moon: A landmark volume in Heinlein’s magnificent Future History series.

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....

©1950, 1977 Robert A. Heinlein, ©2003 by The Robert A. & Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust. (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. "The Best Things in Life Are Free" © 1927 by Crawford Music Corporation, New York, NY. Used by permission.

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Of its time

Full of 1950s era sexism and racism that jars somewhat to the modern ear.
Nevertheless a series of classic tales, including many with a political and social engineering bent re the implications of development - so traditional sci-fi

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Enjoyable early sci-fi stories

I enjoyed these stories even though they are mostly fairly dated, and also fairly simple. They also seem to have some interconnections between the stories, at least in terms of context.

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