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Have Spacesuit--Will Travel

Have Spacesuit--Will Travel

Children's BooksScience Fiction
Pages
240
Published
1971
Language
English

Synopsis

What happens when a jingle contest prize turns out to be a used spacesuit? For Kip Russell, it's the start of an unexpected adventure that takes him from his backyard to the Moon and beyond. He soon finds himself in the company of a mysterious girl and an alien, facing dangers he never imagined.

Prose complexity
1/10

Vibe

AdventurousLightheartedInspiringThought-Provoking
QuestComing of Age

Genres

Children's Books Science Fiction Young Adult Juvenile Space Opera

About the author

R
Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-1988) was an American science fiction writer, born in Butler, Missouri. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1929 and served in the Navy until 1934, afterwards studying mathematics and physics briefly at UCLA. He sold his first story, "Life-Line", to Astounding Science Fiction in 1939 and became one of that magazine's leading contributors. In the late 1940s he was among the first science fiction authors to place work in general-interest magazines such...

Characters

Clifford "Kip" RussellProtagonist
Kip RussellProtagonist
Mother ThingSupporting
All characters in Have Spacesuit--Will Travel

Frequently asked questions

  • Is this book part of a series?

    This novel is a standalone work and does not require reading any other books to understand the plot, though it is historically categorized as the final entry in the author's series of novels written for young readers.

  • Did the author have any specific technical background that influenced the book?

    The author worked as a civilian aeronautics engineer during World War II at a laboratory that developed high-altitude pressure suits, which provided the technical foundation for the realistic details regarding the spacesuit featured in the story.

  • Has this book received any notable recognition?

    The novel was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959 and received the Sequoyah Children's Book Award in 1961.