Man Who Sold the Moon / Orphans of the Sky
“Patterson, Jr.The stories that make up The Man Who Sold the Moon were among the first Heinlein wrote. Both “Life-Line” (his Opus 2) and “‘Let There Be Light’” (Opus 4) nominally took place when they were written, in April and May of 1939. It was not at first obvious to others that they belonged to a “history of the future,” but they were all—plus many more—on a handwritten wall chart Heinlein kept by his writing desk and typewriter, scribbling ideas on the chart in pencil as they came to him. Some of the stories simply gave a view of the future-historical timeline as it developed; others showed “inflexion points,” where a new invention or social force changed the direction of the development. The Martin-Douglas Sun-Power screens of “‘Let There Be Light,’” for example, enabled all the other technological innovations that were to come.Heinlein had mined the idea of an extended development from the backstory of his unsold Opus 1 utopian novel, For Us, the Living.
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