Have Space Suit--Will Travel | Literary Precedents
It is difficult to pinpoint any specific literary precedents for Have Space Suit — Will Travel. By recognizing the parodic levels of the novel, however, one can suggest some general debts. It parodies any number of "space operas" of the 1930s and 1940s — spectacular and utterly implausible adventures in which larger-than-life heroes rescue planets, galaxies, and whole universes from destruction by a bizarre combination of scientific and military genius and a knack for fisticuffs. In a sense Heinlein rewrites these stories, having a great deal of fun with their absurdities, and fashions...
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