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The Man Who Sold the Moon

By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Buck Schirner
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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. Adventure Science Fiction

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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.

Enjoyable early sci-fi stories

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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

Of its time

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