Heinlein's HAVE SPACE SUIT--WILL TRAVEL.(Critical Essay) From: The Explicator | Date: March 22, 2001| Author: McGIVERON, RAFEEG O. | COPYRIGHT 2001 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Many critics agree that the 1958 Have Space Suit--Will Travel is one of Robert A. Heinlein's best works. [1] The novel has been examined in terms of such disparate subjects as its Calvinistic elements (Slusser 51-55, Stover 90-92), its internationalism (McGiveron 60-61), and even its musical and literary allusions (Erisman 47-48). Space exploration, of course, is crucial to almost all of Heinlein's work. H. Bruce Franklin has observed, rather sneeringly, that Heinlein's juveniles a...

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