Clarke) craters was Rhysling (crater), named after the blind singer of the spaceways in "The Green Hills of Earth". Near " Dune" (after the Frank Herbert novel) and " Earthlight" (Arthur C. The Apollo 15 astronauts named a number of craters in their landing area after favorite science fiction stories. While completing the repairs, he knows that he will soon die of radiation poisoning and tells them to record his last song he dies just moments after singing the final, titular verse. A malfunction threatens the ship with destruction, and Rhysling enters the irradiated area to perform repairs. Rhysling realizes that his death of old age is near, and hitchhikes on a spaceship headed to Earth so he can die and be buried where he was born. The events of the story concern the composition of the titular song. The story takes the form of a nonfiction magazine article. naval officer) spins a yarn about a radiation-blinded, unemployable spaceship engineer crisscrossing the Solar System writing and singing songs.
Heinlein (himself a medically retired U.S. It is the story of "Noisy" Rhysling, the blind space-going songwriter whose poetic skills rival Rudyard Kipling's. who quoted the last verse of Rhysling's song "The green hills of Earth" (from this story) as their third moonwalk was ending. Rhysling (crater) on the moon was named by Apollo 15 astronauts. The Rhysling Award for speculative fiction poetry awarded by the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) is named for the blind poet Rhysling in “The Green Hills of Earth.” "The Green Hills of Earth" is also the title of a song mentioned in several of Heinlein's novels.
Heinlein selected the story for inclusion in the 1949 anthology My Best Science Fiction Story. 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). " The Green Hills of Earth" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. For other uses, see Green Hills of Earth (disambiguation).
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