The Menace From Earth
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"The Menace From Earth" (ISBN 0671578022) is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1957.
The "menace" of the title is a beautiful woman who visits the Moon and is assigned a young guide named Jeff. Jeff's best friend is Holly, a girl student and aspiring starship designer whose hobby is flying in a great cavern in the Moon, made possible because the gravity field is one sixth the strength of Earth's. As Jeff spends more time with the visitor, Holly becomes jealous and begins to doubt Jeff's friendship.
This one of the author's few stories written from a female perspective.
The Menace From Earth (ISBN 0552093345) is also a collection of Heinlein's short stories, copyright 1959, and published in paperback by Signet in 1962, containing: