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Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Published 1958 by Charles Scribner's Sons · 276 pages
Hugo · 1959
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14 award entries · 9 books · 4 wins · 1956–1985
Synopsis
High school student Clifford "Kip" Russell wins a used space suit in a soap jingle contest and restores it to working condition, only to be swept up in an interstellar adventure when he answers a distress call from a young girl named Peewee. Together with an alien ally called the Mother Thing, they are kidnapped to the Moon and then to Pluto, ultimately facing a tribunal of advanced alien races that will decide humanity's fate.
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