Robert Heinlein, Have Space Suit - Will Travel

William Patterson (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1958

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Children's Literature
Novel
Science Fiction

Resources

Have Space Suit – Will Travel (1958) – Kip Russell does not win a prize contest trip to the Moon, but he does win a consolation prize, a used space suit he reconditions as a summer project. He picks up a distress call and goes to help – and finds himself in the middle of interstellar and even intergalactic intrigue, forced to stand as a representative of the entire human race in the judgment of aliens.

For more information on Heinlien's Juveniles (written between 1947 and 1958) see our entry on Robert Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo, The Literary Encyclopedia profile by William Patterson, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Citation: Patterson, William. "Have Space Suit - Will Travel". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 November 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16275, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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