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Have Space Suit ~ Will Travel features one of Heinlein's best plots, working effectively on several levels. It is, like most of his young adult novels, a rite of passage, the story of a youth's coming of age. Kip is plucked from his normal life and confronted with a series of increasingly difficult challenges, until, having surmounted them all, he is returned to his point of origin, with a far greater self-knowledge and self-confidence. Each of Kip's challenges also serves to enlarge his (and the reader's) sense of the universe. The novel opens on a familiar Earth, where the reader...
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