Requiem

Name: Requiem
Author: Robert A. Heinlein

1940 short story by Robert A. Heinlein

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Author: Robert A. Heinlein
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-21
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Released: 1940
Language: English
Genre: science fiction
Follows: Space Jockey
Followed by: The Long Watch

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"Requiem" is a short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, a sequel to his science fiction novella "The Man Who Sold the Moon", although it was in fact published several years earlier than that story, in Astounding, January 1940. The story was also performed as a play on October 27, 1955, on the NBC Radio Network program X Minus One.

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Title: Requiem
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1.Stated in Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseRetrieved 2025-05-21
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Form of creative work: short story
Part of the series: Future History

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