Columbus Was a Dope

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Columbus Was a Dope

Author	Robert A. Heinlein
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Published	May 1947 (initial publication)
Publication place	United States
The story takes place in a bar on the Moon, where patrons debate the merits of space exploration in comparison to Columbus's discovery of the New World.

"Columbus Was a Dope" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was first published in the May 1947 issue of Startling Stories. It later appeared in two of Heinlein's collections, The Menace from Earth (1959),^[1] and Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein (2005).