Title: Have Space Suit

Title: Have Space Suit - Will Travel Title Record # 1811
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Date: 1958-09-00
Type: NOVEL [juvenile]
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: From the back cover of the Del Rey 9th printing: "Skyjacked - Everything happened at once. One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon - and the next he was out cold and the captive of an insidious space pirate. The whole thing seemed like a very bad dream until he discovered he wasn't the only prisoner on board. Then the reality of the situation became inescapable. He - along with the daughter of a world-renowned scientist and a beautiful creature from an alien planet - had been skyjacked by a monstrous extraterrestrial and they were on their way to the Moon... a journey toward a fate worse than death!"

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Translated Serializations

Year	Title
1971	Have Space Suit—Will Travel^?Have Space Suit-Will Travel

Year	Language	Title
1959^ⓘTranslated by Roland Adlerberth	Swedish	Egen rymddräkt finnes
1960^ⓘTranslated by Else von Hollander-Lossow	German	Piraten im Weltenraum
1960^ⓘTranslated by Else von Hollander-Lossow (1960)	German	Piraten im Weltraum
1961^ⓘTranslated by Maria Todeschini	Italian	La tuta spaziale
1977^ⓘTranslated by Eurico da Fonseca	Portuguese	Equipagem espacial
1977^ⓘTranslated by Michel Deutsch	French	Le vagabond de l'espace [as by Robert Heinlein]
1978^ⓘTranslated by Heinz Zwack (as Heinz Nagel)	German	Kip überlebt auf Pluto
1978^ⓘTranslated by Heinz Zwack (as Heinz Nagel)	German	Raumjäger
1982^ⓘTranslated by Heinz Zwack (as Heinz Nagel); the translation seems to be the first unabridged German one	German	Die Invasion der Wurmgesichter
1984^ⓘTranslated by Maria Nóvoa	Portuguese	Viajantes do Espaço
1997^ⓘTranslated by Sönmez Güven	Turkish	Uzay Elbisemle Yolculuğa Hazırım^?Uzay Elbisemle Yolculuga Hazirim
2006^ⓘTranslated by Елена Беляева, Александр Митюшкин (Elena Belyaeva, Aleksandr Mityushkin)	Russian	Имею скафандр — готов путешествовать^?Imeyu skafandr - gotov pyteshestvovat' Imeyu skafandr — gotov pyteshestvovat' [as by Роберт Хайнлайн^?Robert Khaynlayn Robert Heinlein ]
2009^ⓘTranslated by Michel Deutsch, revised by Xavier Mauméjean and Sébastien Guillot (+ Estelle Blanquet and Éric Picholle for the 2011 LdP édition).	French	Le vagabond de l'espace

Year	Title
1958	Have Space Suit - Will Travel (Part 1 of 3)
1958	Have Space Suit - Will Travel (Part 2 of 3)
1958	Have Space Suit - Will Travel (Part 3 of 3)

Year	Language	Title
1960	French	Le jeune homme et l'espace (Part 1 of 3) [as by Robert Heinlein]
1961	French	Le jeune homme et l'espace (Part 2 of 3) [as by Robert Heinlein]
1961	French	Le jeune homme et l'espace (Part 3 of 3) [as by Robert Heinlein]
1963^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator	Italian	Ho la tuta: viaggerò nello spazio (Part 1 of 6)
1963^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator	Italian	Ho la tuta: viaggerò nello spazio (Part 2 of 6)
1963^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator	Italian	Ho la tuta: viaggerò nello spazio (Part 3 of 6)
1963^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator	Italian	Ho la tuta: viaggerò nello spazio (Part 4 of 6)
1963^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator	Italian	Ho la tuta: viaggerò nello spazio (Part 5 of 6)
1963^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited translator	Italian	Ho la tuta: viaggerò nello spazio (Part 6 of 6)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Finalists	1959 Hugo	Best Novel
48	1998 Locus	All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990
Nomination	2007 BSFA	BSFA Fiftieth Anniversary Award: Best Novel of 1958

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1958-09-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Charles Scribner's Sons		$2.95^?$: US dollar	276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ed Emshwiller
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1958-09-00	Robert A. Heinlein	S. J. R. Saunders		C$3.50^?C$: Canadian dollar	276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ed Emshwiller
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1959-09-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Charles Scribner's Sons		$3.50^?$: US dollar	276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ed Emshwiller
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1963-04-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Charles Scribner's Sons		$3.50^?$: US dollar	276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ed Emshwiller
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1964-01-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Charles Scribner's Sons			276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ed Emshwiller
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1967-01-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Charles Scribner's Sons		$3.31^?$: US dollar	276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ed Emshwiller
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1970-00-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Gollancz	0-575-00517-3	24/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1971-08-00	Robert A. Heinlein	New English Library	0-450-00729-4	£0.30^?£: UK pound	175	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1971-09-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Charles Scribner's Sons		$3.50^?$: US dollar	276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Ed Emshwiller
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1972-04-00	Robert A. Heinlein	New English Library	0-450-00729-4	£0.30^?£: UK pound	175	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1975-03-00	Robert A. Heinlein	New English Library	0-450-02321-4	£0.40^?£: UK pound	175	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel	1975-06-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Ace Books	31801	$1.25^?$: US dollar	255	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Steele Savage
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1977-05-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Charles Scribner's Sons (Hudson River Editions)	0-684-14857-9		[9]+ 276	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1978-06-00	Robert A. Heinlein	New English Library	0-450-03854-8	£0.80^?£: UK pound	175	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Joe Petagno
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1982-09-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-30103-X	$2.25^?$: US dollar	255	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Darrell K. Sweet
Have Space Suit, Will Travel	1986-06-00	Robert A. Heinlein	New English Library	0-450-00729-4	£1.95^?£: UK pound	175	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Have Space Suit, Will Travel	1987-00-00	Robert A. Heinlein	New English Library	0-450-00729-4	£1.95^?£: UK pound	175	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1995-00-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-32441-2	$4.95^?$: US dollar	255	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Darrell K. Sweet
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	1995-01-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Atheneum / SFBC	06425	$6.98^?$: US dollar	184	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Frank Kelly Freas
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel	2003-08-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-46107-X	$6.99^?$: US dollar	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel	2005-02-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Pocket Books	1-4165-0549-0	$12.00^?$: US dollar	249	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Roger Ressmeyer
Outward Bound	2006-06-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Science Fiction Book Club	978-0-7394-6891-3 / 1214115	$14.99^?$: US dollar	586	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	omni	Bruce Jensen
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	2008-10-00	Robert A. Heinlein	Full Cast Audio	978-1-934180-53-2	$39.95^?$: US dollar		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	novel	Jerry Russell
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	2008-12-00	Robert A. Heinlein	The Virginia Edition (The Virginia Edition #21)	978-1-897350-26-3		v+ 192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Have Space Suit - Will Travel	2011-04-19	Robert A. Heinlein	Spectrum Literary Agency		$7.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Have Space Suit- Will Travel	date unknown	Robert A. Heinlein	Ace Books	31800	$0.95^?$: US dollar	255	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Steele Savage

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Reviews

Review by Anthony Boucher (1959) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1959
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1959) in Astounding Science Fiction, June 1959
Review by Floyd C. Gale (1959) in Galaxy Magazine, August 1959
Review by Clifford McMurray (1975) in Delap's F & SF Review, November 1975
Review by Spider Robinson (1976) in Galaxy, January 1976
Review by David Pringle (1985) in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , reprinted in:
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1985)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1986)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1987)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (1997)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (2014)
Review by David Mead (2003) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, December 2003
Review by Audrey Eschright and Lucas Grzybowski (2007) in Yog's Notebook, Summer 2007
Review by Jo Walton (2008) in What Makes This Book So Great, (2014)
Review by Jo Walton (2018) in An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000 , reprinted in:
An Informal History of the Hugos: A Personal Look Back at the Hugo Awards, 1953-2000 (2018)