About “Let There Be Light”
"Let There Be Light" is a science fiction short story by American writer 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 omitted from the omnibus collection The Past Through Tomorrow. It draws on Heinlein's early leftist ideas and references George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1940