The Green Hills of Earth

"The Green Hills of Earth"
Short story by Robert A. Heinlein
CountryUSA
Genre(s)science fiction
Publication
Published inThe Saturday Evening Post
Publication dateFebruary 8, 1947
This article is about the Robert A. Heinlein short story. For other uses, see Green Hills of Earth (disambiguation).

"The Green Hills of Earth" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. One of his Future History stories, the short story originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post (February 8, 1947), and it was collected in The Green Hills of Earth (and subsequently in The Past Through Tomorrow). Heinlein selected the story for inclusion in the 1949 anthology My Best Science Fiction Story. "The Green Hills of Earth" is also the title of a song mentioned in several of Heinlein's novels.

The Rhysling Award for speculative fiction poetry awarded by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA)[1] is named for the blind poet Rhysling in “The Green Hills of Earth.”[2]

Rhysling (crater)[3] on the Moon was named by Apollo 15 astronauts.[4][5] who quoted the last verse of Rhysling's song "The green hills of Earth"[6] (from this story) as their third moonwalk was ending.

  1. ^ "Science Fiction Poetry Association". www.sfpoetry.com. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
  2. ^ "The SFPA Rhysling Awards and Anthology". www.sfpoetry.com. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
  3. ^ "Planetary Names: Landing site name: Rhysling on Moon". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  4. ^ Gifford, James, Rhysling Crater on site:RAH, retrieved June 28, 2010
  5. ^ Capcom Joe Allen on Earth summoned David Scott and Jim Irwin with the words "As the space poet Rhysling would say, we're ready for you to 'come back again to the homes of men on the cool green hills of Earth.'" Apollo 15 - In The Mountains Of The Moon (1971), retrieved February 17, 2022
  6. ^ "Hammer and Feather". www.hq.nasa.gov. 167:51:20. Retrieved February 17, 2022. | work=Apollo Lunar Surface Journal transcripts of Apollo 15 audio