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Encyclopedia > "Let There Be Light"

“Let There Be Light” a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Super Science Stories magazine in May 1940 under the pseudonym Lyle Monroe. It is the second story in his Future History and was included in the first collection, The Man Who Sold the Moon, but was omitted from the omnibus collection The Past Through Tomorrow for unknown reasons. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Heinlein autographing at the 1976 Worldcon Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ... A future history is a postulated history of the future that some science fiction authors construct as a common background for fiction. ... The Man Who Sold the Moon was the title of two anthologies of science fiction short stories by Robert A. Heinlein. ... The Past Through Tomorrow was a collection of Robert Heinleins famed Future History stories The stories, for the most part, follow the same storyline of a rapidly collapsing American sanity, followed by a theocratic dictatorship (If This Goes On. ...

Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Collections The Past Through Tomorrow, Orphans of the Sky
Short Stories Life-Line, "Let There Be Light", The Roads Must Roll, Blowups Happen, The Man Who Sold the Moon, Delilah and the Space Rigger, Space Jockey, Requiem, The Long Watch, Gentlemen, Be Seated!, The Black Pits of Luna, "It's Great to Be Back!", "—We Also Walk Dogs", Searchlight, Ordeal in Space, The Green Hills of Earth, Logic of Empire, The Menace from Earth, "If This Goes On—", Coventry, Misfit, Universe, Common Sense
Novels Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset


 

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