![]() ![]() An 11-year-old girl (Peewee) and an alien being (the "Mother Thing") flee from it, but all three are quickly captured and taken to the Moon. He is shocked when a flying saucer lands practically on top of him. As he idly broadcasts on his shortwave radio, someone identifying herself as "Peewee" answers and requests a homing signal. Kip reluctantly decides to return his space suit for a cash prize to help pay for college, but puts it on for one last walk. Kip puts the suit (which he names "Oscar") back into working condition. His father suggests he enter an advertising jingle-writing contest first prize is an all-expenses-paid trip there. High school senior Clifford "Kip" Russell is determined to get to the Moon, but the price of a ticket is far beyond his reach. In the near future, Earth has established some lunar bases. Heinlein's engineering expertise enabled him to add realistic detail during World War II, he had been a civilian aeronautics engineer at a laboratory which developed pressure suits for use at high altitudes. ![]() The last Heinlein novel to be published by Scribner's, it was nominated for a Hugo Award in 1959 and won the Sequoyah Children's Book Award for 1961. Heinlein, originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August, September, and October 1958) and published by Scribner's in hardcover in 1958. Have Space Suit-Will Travel is a science fiction novel for young readers by American writer Robert A. ![]()
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