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The Man Who Sold the Moon

By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Buck Schirner
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Publisher's 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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Great story but...

Claims to be unabridged. Is both abridged and censored. Good narrator, but I just can't get past the censorship and the "unabridged" lie. Try to be a little more honest next time Audible. had I known, I wouldn't have wasted my money and stuck with the George Guidell version. Gives me doubts as to how censored the rest of my library is.

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A Science Fiction Classic!

If you could sum up The Man Who Sold the Moon in three words, what would they be?

Heinlein's Future History...

What did you like best about this story?

These stories have "aged" surprisingly well. I find myself just as excited by the audiobook version as I was on my first reading of the book, now many years ago.

What does Buck Schirner bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The voicing made the book stand out as even more memorable than my first experience reading it.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

"Requiem" very nearly brought me to tears.

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Rated PG 13 for mild profanity. (Single instance.)

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Superb performance!

Buck Schirner perfectly captures the 1950s speech patterns of the characters. They sound just like I imagined they would when I first read this book.

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Love Heinlein, but..

The reader wasn't good. He tried to use the rough Bogart voice, which came across as crude rather than tough.

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The Man Who Sold The Moon

"The Man Who ..." may be RAH's most intriguing short story before he fell into the novella and adult length genres. Incredible attention to details and twists and turns. Joe 2015

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always a great story

RAH is awesome. there's not a thing I can say that wouldn't have already been said about how great the writer he was.

But what in the heck is with this covet picture? The original cover is perfect ....this looks like it's some kind of Horror portrayal... And it is definitely it's horrible.

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Best place to start Heinlein books

This collection of short stories is the best place to start reading Heinlein’s world of books. It will set the stage for the future that includes Lazarus Long who is the uniting character in this world of stories.
Highly recommend this series to anyone who is interested in science fiction.

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The most memorable part is the title.

It was better when I read it 50 years ago. It was better 30 years ago.

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Titular novella is pretty good...

...the rest of the collection isn't.

Sorry, Bob.

The minimum number of words for a review is fifteen.

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Hey it's Heinlien

Old school sci fi but worth the listen. But definitely dated now. The performance was very good.

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