Robert Heinlein - Have Space Suit, Will Travel

Pros: A likeable hero, a "sense of wonder" as you follow him through his adventures
Cons: After Heinlein quit doing educational and enjoyable "Hard SF" juveniles, nobody took over?

This is one of the SF "juveniles" that Heinlein used to produce once a year in the 1950s, just in time for Xmas shopping. He once claimed that the editor who bought these things did not particularly like his writing, but kept publishing them because she...

Pros: great read, good quality space opera romp in the pulp tradition.
Cons: in and out of print. Currently OUT, so second hand only at the moment

Written in 1958, this book was another of Robert Heinlein's books for the youth market, and sadly his last. Rather fascinatingly, Heinlein once more makes use of his engineering background, this time with pressurised suits, to add scientific realism to ...

Pros: One of the best adolescent SF books around
Cons: Are you serious?

This is a wonderful piece of science fiction, not merely Robert A. Heinlein's best juvenile novel but, indeed, one of his best books. Have Space Suit: Will Travel is a tightly plotted and lucidly written novel that can be read by sci fi fans of all ages....