Have Space Suit--Will Travel | Social Concerns
The last, and perhaps the finest, of the popular series of young adult novels that Heinlein wrote for Scribner's, Have Space Suit — Will Travel is Heinlein at his best. It has been argued that in his young adult novels Heinlein educated a generation of young Americans about the possibilities of space flight and, in a broader sense, about the many challenges of a technological future; this educational concern is central to Have Space Suit — Will Travel. The novel can be read in part as a clever satire on the deficiencies of the American education system (the young hero learns almost...
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