“The Roads Must Roll”
1940-06-00
novelette
By Robert A. Heinlein

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First publication: Astounding, June 1940

1941 RetroHugo winner for best novelette.

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We have the story in these editions:

The Past Through Tomorrow, hardcover, Ace/SFBC, 1987-07-00

Astounding Science-Fiction, June 1940, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr., magazine, Street & Smith, 1940-06-00



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Coventry
Blowups Happen
Logic of Empire
—We Also Walk Dogs
The Green Hills of Earth
Space Jockey
It’s Great to Be Back
The Black Pits of Luna
Gentlemen, Be Seated!
Ordeal in Space
Delilah and the Space-Rigger
The Long Watch
The Menace from Earth
Searchlight
The Roads Must Roll
Life-Line
Misfit
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
If This Goes On—
Orphans of the Sky
Let There Be Light