That old master of SF, Robert Heinlein, knows [science fiction] well enough to make fun of it. Kip, his engaging hero [in Have Space Suit—Will Travel], saves the world from an invasion of bug-eyed monsters—or their equivalent—and then goes back to his part-time job as soda-jerk in a drugstore. Kip has a nice line in wise-cracking: he also has great courage and deep humanity—it is his humanity which responds to the wisdom and tenderness of the Mother Thing. The M.T. is a Vegan, sm...

Robert A. Heinlein wears imagination as though it were his private suit of clothes. What makes his work so rich is that he combines his lively creative sense with an approach that is at once literate, informed and exciting. "Have Space Suit—Will Travel" … carries the reader into the universe in the company of Kip (Clifford) Russell, a lad whose ambition is to go to the moon, and his unexpected traveling companion, Peewee (Patricia) Reisfeld, a terrifying 10-year-old genius whose ...