English language
Published Dec. 22, 1947
English language
Published Dec. 22, 1947
"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), and Off the Main Sequence: The Other Science Fiction Stories of Robert A. Heinlein (2005).