The Menace From Earth

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The Menace From Earth
Author Robert A. Heinlein
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction short story
Released in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, August, 1957
Publication type Magazine
Media Type Print (Periodical & Paperback)
Released August 1957

"The Menace From Earth" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1957.

The "menace" of the title is a beautiful woman who visits the Moon and is assigned a young guide named Holly, a girl student and aspiring starship designer whose hobby is flying in a great cavern in the Moon, made possible because the gravity field is one sixth the strength of Earth's. Her best friend is Jeff, who appears enamored of the "groundhog" visitor. As Jeff spends more time with the visitor, Holly becomes jealous and begins to doubt Jeff's friendship.

This is one of Heinlein's few stories written from a female perspective.

v • d • e
Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Collections The Past Through Tomorrow, Orphans of the Sky, Expanded Universe
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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