Robert A. Heinlein
Paperback | Pages: 276 pages Rating: 3.9 | 25722 Users | 935 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Have Space Suit - Will Travel |
| ISBN: | 1416505490 (ISBN13: 9781416505495) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Clifford Russell, Peewee, The "Mother Thing" |
| Setting: | Space |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1959), Locus Award Nominee for All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990 (1998), British Science Fiction Association Award Nominee for Best Novel of 1958 (2007), Oklahoma Sequoyah Award (1961) |
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My first Robert A. Heinlein work read and still one of my favorites.Heinlein produced his juvenile books for Charles Scribner's Sons mainly in the 1950s and these were what many consider to be some of his finest work. I’ve always thought that the period between 1957 and 1966 was his zenith, with good work before and after, but during this time was when he was at the height of his considerable powers.
Have Space Suit Will Travel was first published by Scribner's in 1958 and so was a part of this high quality. Nominated for a Hugo award in 1959 (and what a cast that was! James Blish won for A Case of Conscience, and the other nominees were Robert Scheckley’s Immortality, Inc., Poul Anderson’s The Enemy Stars, and Algis Budrys’ Who?) this was on a short list of his best.
Kip Russell wants to go to the moon. There begins a golden opportunity for SF in the Golden Age!
Brimming with 50s kitsch, but in a loveable way, Heinlein appealed to his juvenile audience with a fun adventure story and to his growing older fans with some cool SF. Some of the more interesting RAH characters are here and also the beginnings of some of his more ubiquitous ideas like liberty, resourcefulness, self-reliance and determinism.
My 2016 reread left me nostalgic and endearing, and more appreciative of his talent than before.
A MUST read for RAH fans and SF readers in general.
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| Title | : | Have Space Suit—Will Travel |
| Author | : | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 276 pages |
| Published | : | February 8th 2005 by Pocket Books (first published September 1st 1958) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Young Adult |
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If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.Non-Hubris SF: "Have Space Suit-Will Travel" by Robert A. HeinleinI feel like there is a weird bias when analyzing Heinleins work and this book in particular.I never really got that the Competent Man in Heinlein books was presented as the norm. It was always the protagonist or the protagonist's mentor, characters who can be expected to be exceptional in some way. There were always people beyond reclamation, but Jubal and Lazarus alwaysfourth read - 14 March 2011 - I remember reading Have Space Suit-Will Travel from the library as a kid, and bought my own copy in 1980 in order to re-read it. I see from my notes that I read it again in 1991. I read it this time probably the fourth time in my life. There is little doubt in my mind that it was books such as this one that led me to pursue the career I have, now in biomedical engineering. Heinlein even calls out specific engineering schools for praise - the one I went to actually
I decided I needed to break it into two parts - one, the story itself and two, Heinleins tirade against society. Have Space Suit Will Travel is set in the 1950's and is one of his juvenile pieces of literature. Kip Russell dreams of going to the stars, and when Skyway Soap has a contest for best lingo with the prize being a trip to the Moon, Kip collects and submits 5000 entries. He doesnt win the trip to the moon, but a space suit instead. If he returns the space suit to Goodyear by September,
Sooooo ... I've read my first Heinlein (actually, I've listened to it but whatever). Influenced by many people with many different tastes and what they had to say about Mr. Heinlein, I was VERY reluctant. But I thought that most of the negative sides I had heard about of this author couldn't possibly be included in one of his books for juveniles so I joined the group read.And wouldn't you know? No sexism in this one. There are two kids (a boy and a girl) and they go on an adventure. Quite a
I am usually reluctant to read juveniles, or YA books because I am too cynical to fully appreciate them and they make me feel old as the hills. Still, the whole point of usually is that you do it some time to disqualify it from almost never. Have Space SuitWill Travel is probably the most popular of the Heinleins Juveniles seriesif Goodreads Robert A. Heinlein profile page is to be believed. The last Heinlein book I read was Starship Troopers, which surprisingly turned out to be a frustrating
I read this as a teenager many years ago. I was 12-13 and this was truly magical. I wandered around in my yard at home, looking up at the stars. It's still one of my favourite from Heinlein, the man who taught me to read voraciously.
This story remembered me why I loved so much reading Heinlein's stories when I was a teenager. The main MCs are endearing. The story has suspense and is not without meaning. On the contrary, I could tell that a youth reading it would be introduced to another way of seeing his/her world. "I used to think of the human race as lords of creation-but things had happened to me since. I was not sure that this assemblage would think that humans had rights compared with wormfaces. Certainly the wormfaces
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