Have Space Suit - Will Travel
Format: paperback
ASIN: B000Z51G8K
Publish date: January 1st 1958
Publisher: Ace Books 31800
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
A Classic YA SF tale that won't be for everyone. Kip from midwest Centerville USA works the summer before college as a pharmacy soda jerk, and wins an authentic stripped-down spacesuit in a soap contest. He answers a distress radio call from Peewee, scrawny rag doll-clutching genius aged 11. Wi...
Super educational, and a really fun read. I wasn't expecting this to be as adventuresome as it is. I really love the main character's father. He has numerous quotes that has really surprised, and delighted me. Hopefully I will be able to find more Heinlein books, because so far I have really enjoyed...
I must say that when I read the first few pages of this book it had me in hysterics, particularly with the way Kip's father did his tax returns (by working it out in his head, then throwing a heap of money into an envelope and posting it off). Heinlein, in opening this story, created a rather eccent...
Russell Kip wants to travel to Moon. He plays a lottery but loses. As a consolation he’s been given a space suit. He christened it Oscar. He modified it and added some gadgets. He became addicted with the suit. But, unfortunately first things first. He needs education and money for that. He goes wor...
In my early teens I read science fiction by the truckload, and while I remember many of the "classics" fairly well, I remember the plot, the characters and the pivotal moments of "Have Space Suit Will Travel" in some detail. That's testament to how much fun this "Young Adult" novel from Heinlein stu...
8 years ago
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