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Have Spacesuit Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein

 
Description: ISBN 1416505490 / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Newest Review: ... a contest for Skyway Soap. Instead of the prize he hoped to win, a trip into space, he is instead awarded an obsolete, used ... more

 ... model of spacesuit. Disappointed, he is encouraged and aided by several people in the town into restoring the suit into usable condition. Deciding his best chance to get into space is to go to university and study hard towards a space related career, he nonetheless decides to put the suit on one last time and go for a "space walk" in his back garden. One moment he is a teenaged boy larking about, surprised to hear a young girl's voice over his radio, and the next he is knocked out cold, awakening to discov...more

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Premium Review Have Spacesuit Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein: Mayday! Mayday! (523 words)
by shroud - written on 10/01/08 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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Written in 1958, this book was another of Robert Heinlein's books for the youth market, and sadly his last. Rather fascinatingly, Heinlein once more makes use of his engineering background, this time with pressurised suits, to add scientific realism to the book in a very informatively entertaining manner. The story revolves around a teenaged boy in his last year of high school. He lives in a small town and is being raised by his father, who is regarded by the locals to somewhat of an eccentric for his tinkering and philosophical ways. Kip desires nothing more than to get his chance to go into space, and pins his hope on a jingle he writes for a contest for Skyway Soap. ...

 

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