So he learns how to put it on and charge it and starts taking hikes in the suit and filling its oxygen tanks, 'cause what else is a red-blooded American boy going to do with a space suit? And one night, while tuned to the radio frequency usually used by spaceships, he picks up a signal. Instead he wins a consolation prize: an old surplus space suit. Set at some point in the future when there are colonies on the Moon but the world still looks pretty much like 1950s America, Clifford "Kip" Russell enters a contest sponsored by a soap company to win a trip to the Moon. Heinlein had settled into his groove by now, so this story had all the well-established Heinlein tropes: the wise patriarchal father who tries to teach his son critical thinking and bootstrap independence, a motherly mother who is a much-loved appendage with almost zero dialog, the adventurous young man with a heart that is pure and a head that is a little squishy, a precocious ten-year-old girl who is a snarky, adorable genius, and aliens who range from wise and benevolent to pure evil, but turn out to have a few more shades of gray than is initially apparent.
In his early days as a writer, particularly when writing his juveniles, his books were pure story, and Have Space Suit, Will Travel was one of the last he wrote in this series. Heinlein isn't quite a "guilty pleasure" for me, because I think he was a genuinely great writer, when he could keep his head out of his ass and his hand off his dick and actually stick to the story. Inverarity Write a soap jingle, win a space suit, travel to the Magellanic Clouds!Ī journey of 167,000 lights years begins with.a bar of soap? Fasten your zero gravity restraints for Robert Heinlein's novel of intergalactic adventure, a story that carries teenager Clifford "Kip" Russell from his job as soda jerk to space-suit winner to alien abductee! Along the way Kip is joined by a pint-sized genius named Peewee and an empathetic alien creature known as "the Mother Thing." The story of how this strange trio battles alien gangsters only to end up on trial in an intergalactic court trillions of miles from Earth features all the wicked humor, brilliant detail, and g-force drama that made Robert Heinlein the world's favorite science fiction writer.
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