Searchlight (short story)

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Searchlight is a very short science fiction story by Robert A. Heinlein about a little blind girl whose spaceship crashes on the Moon. The search for her takes advantage of her prodigious musical ability to locate her.

It was originally written in 1962 as part of an advertisement for Hoffman Electronics. Heinlein says that because it was so short it was much harder to write than writing novels.

It is anthologized in The Worlds of Robert A. Heinlein, a collection of short stories published in 1966 and his Expanded Universe in 1980.

v • d • e Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
Collections	The Past Through Tomorrow, Orphans of the Sky, Expanded Universe
Short Stories	Life-Line, "Let There Be Light", The Roads Must Roll, Blowups Happen, The Man Who Sold the Moon, Delilah and the Space Rigger, Space Jockey, Requiem, The Long Watch, Gentlemen, Be Seated!, The Black Pits of Luna, "It's Great to Be Back!", "—We Also Walk Dogs", Searchlight, Ordeal in Space, The Green Hills of Earth, Logic of Empire, The Menace from Earth, "If This Goes On—", Coventry, Misfit, Universe, Common Sense
Novels	Methuselah's Children, Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset