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Title: Black Pits of Luna - Short Story

Written: April - May 1947    Pages: 156

 

Description:

File contains 16 pages of notecards. 3 pages of synopsis notes for story titled “Boy In the Moon”. Draft titled “Little Boy Lost”. Three more drafts of manuscript. Letter from publisher followed by apparently publisher-edited draft with handwritten notation saying “356 sentences changed out of 456! God!”. Published story in Saturday Evening Post, January 10, 1948. Other published versions.

 

Publication:

The Saturday Evening Post, January 10, 1948, and collected into The Green Hills of Earth and Other Stories (1951); Other anthology appearances: Possible Worlds of Science Fiction (ed. Groff Conklin, Vanguard Press 1951); Science Fiction and Reader's Guide (ed. Marjorie Barrows, Spencer Press, 1954); Stories of Scientific Imagination (ed. Joseph Gallant, Oxford Book Co. 1954); The Robert Heinlein Omnibus (Sidgwick & Jackson/SFBC, 1958); A Robert Heinlein Omnibus (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1966); Tomorrow’s Worlds (ed. Robert Silverberg, Meredith 1969).

 

Notes: Working and submission title: Little Boy Lost; alternative working title: The Boy in the Moon.

OPUS 053 - Black Pits of Luna

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