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High school senior Clifford "Kip" Russell is determined to get to the Moon, but the price of a ticket is far beyond his reach. His unorthodox father suggests he enter an advertising jingle -writing contest; first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip there. Instead, he wins a used space suit.
- Robert A. Heinlein
- 1958
Jul 2, 2010 · A high school senior who yearns to go to the moon, wins a real spacesuit in a contest but is forced to sell it for college tuition. Deciding to take one last walk in the suit in his backyard, he playfully calls out on the radio only to unexpectedly contact a passing spaceship.
Complete summary of Robert A. Heinlein's Have Space Suit--Will Travel. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Have Space Suit--Will Travel.
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Jul 2, 2010 · Harry Kloor’s Jupiter 9 Prods. is developing a feature version of Robert Heinlein’s “Have Space Suit, Will Travel” with Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Peter McHugh attached as...
May 1, 2012 · 3.92. 30,278 ratings1,126 reviews. 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.
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Have Space Suit — Will Travel was originally published as part of Scribner's juvenile or young-adult book list. The dozen Scribner's science fiction juveniles by Heinlein began with the great adventure of Rocket Ship Galileo (1947) and went on through Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), a masterpiece.
Have Space Suit—Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August, September, October 1958) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958. It is the last of the Heinlein juveniles.