![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clifford (Kip, to his friends) is on his own. His dad reads, so he’s smart, and cool, but old, comical fiction, so he’s not a snoot. He wants to go to the Moon but, it is implied, already has a space suit before he ever gets there. Our main character is a kid, he’s asking his dad for permission (His dad is there! And important!). (Don’t worry, I have more to say.)Īlright, let’s break it down. Pretty much everything you need to know about Have Space Suit-Will Travel is in that quote. This time he closed the book on a finger and said gently, “I said it was all right. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat, which he must know by heart. “Certainly,” he answered and looked back at his book. “Dad,” I said, “I want to go to the Moon.” It also has two absolutely killer hard science fiction action sequences. It is, like its protagonist, unabashedly earnest entirely unapologetic in its love of science and engineering and work and sharply written, showing full well Heinlein’s immense talent for aphorisms-if I hadn’t stopped writing down or tweeting every great line I would still be reading it. Like The Hobbit, it threatens to be a bit too twee at times, but I never found it overwhelming. But what it is is good-better than most and certainly different than anything I read. There isn’t a love story, and a book simply must have a love story-preferably a triangle-to be YA. And I suppose Have Space Suit-Will Travel, like The Hobbit, would be marketed as middle school fiction were it to be released today. I don’t read a whole lot of YA fiction these days (or ever, really). ![]()
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