Originally published in serial form in 1958, Heinlein's novel follows the exploits of a young, friendless man who wants nothing more than to leave his small town and save up some money for college. In the summer of his senior year, he fixes up an old spacesuit, meets aliens good and bad, engages in some daring escapes, and comes face to face with an interstellar federation that will decide the fate of Earth.
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A junked out, obsolete space suit. That's Kip's prize for his contest-winning soap jingle. Kip's a smart guy, though, so he fixes it up a little, and, playing around with the suit's transmitter one day, he ends up meeting a genius girl named Peewee and a peaceful, mammalian alien known only as the Mother Thing.
Kip, Peewee and the Mother Thing are quickly kidnapped by the villainous Wormface and his human slaves and taken to a holding cell on Pluto, where they're on the dinner menu for some nasty aliens.
A daring escape and interplanetary chase ends up with Kip, Peewee, and some surprising other characters being put on trial, where the outcome is the ultimate fate of humanity.
Heinlein's tale is a retro-charged blast of classic sci-fi, a place where the technologies of the future can go anywhere, and where the rule of the day is "Have Space Suit, Will Travel."
A Hugo Award Nominee
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