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Letter: Life imitates art

Published 14 September 2011

From Vijay Kumar

How many readers of your review of Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 astronaut’s journey to the moon (30 July, p 48) noticed the uncanny resemblance of Al Worden’s story to Robert Heinlein’s 1950 sci-fi novella The Man Who Sold the Moon, in which the main character plans to sell stamps postmarked on the lunar surface?

Chandigarh, India

Issue no. 2830 published 17 September 2011

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