Have Spacesuit Will Travel - Robert A. Heinlein

Clifford "Kip" Russell is the product of one of Robert Heinleins "alternate realities" or futures that never happened, he is a young man at the end of his High School years fast approaching the move towards finding a college to pursue his studies but he has a dream - he wants nothing more than to go to the Moon. As a story that was written in 1958 before the space race even started the science this is rather badly dated as a mixture of 1950's postulated ideas of "things to come" and clearly Heinlein thought America would progress faster into space than they actually did in reality. It's difficult to sumise this story without ...  Read the complete review

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. ...  Read the complete review