![]() ![]() It is for those elements that Have Spacesuit… is often regarded by many professional writers as Heinlein’s best – or at least one of them near the top. ![]() is summarised as a story “that framed all his (Heinlein’s) concerns about intellectually-soggy American youth in a story about a space-struck boy accidentally prepared to take advantage of the slings and arrows fate threw at him amid the game shows and jingle contests that made up American television in the 1950s – and let the boy stand up as a proud representative of humanity in a kangaroo court of aliens.” According to one of RAH’s biographers, William H. This may be a surprise, as all of the now-traditional aspects seem to be there. This is one I haven’t re-read much since first reading it, though I have read many other Heinlein more than once. In my last re-read ( Citizen of the Galaxy) I felt that the skill and the sheer entertainment of the novel encapsulated the author’s work, and that despite a feeling that we’d seen much like it before, Citizen may be seen as one of his best.īy comparison, my memories of reading Have Spacesuit… are not as positive, for reasons I will explain later. It is with shock that I now realise that we have reached the last of what are regarded as Heinlein’s so-called juvenile novels (although there is some debate over whether Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars, a much later novel, count as well.) “You see, I had this spacesuit.” Mark continues his intermittent re-read of Robert Heinlein’s novels through the Virginia Edition series. ![]()
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