Jun 14
Click for full imageBorkworm Bas Comments: This is a pretty early Heinlein cover which I quite like. Heinlein has fairly precise descriptions of the characters in the book including Oscar, the spacesuit. These descriptions are as faithfully depicted as possible by Steele Savage who obviously read the book or at least the descriptions. The plot is a bit strained but the relationship between a boy and his space suit is choice.
Published 1958
Gah! More floating heads!
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June 14th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Ah, those were the days, when the Earth was the colour of Mars and surrounded by green floaty heads.
June 14th, 2010 at 11:28 am
“And we welcome you sir, to the Order of Weird Eyebrows. Now first on our agenda is the two members who in fact don’t have eyebrows. Start growing or you don’t get anymore free custard creams!”
June 14th, 2010 at 11:34 am
I have to take myself out of the snark on this one. Had it as a kid. Love the cover.
June 14th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
The alien floaty head with the blank white face and the very sketchiest of features – his nose (if that is what it is) could be a seven – is the scariest.
June 14th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
What’s a “suit-will”?
— Punctuation Pedant James
June 14th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
$7!!! Thats outrageous!!
June 14th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Simon – Nice. Took me a while.
June 14th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Furthest right: there’s really an albino soft-shelled turtle in Have Space Suit, Will Travel…?
June 14th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
Isn’t it a bit optimistic to wear a spacesuit with a brain pod that size?
June 14th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Any Spaceman who can juggle 10 balls with his shoulderblades through a spacesuit is a heck of a Spaceman in my book.
June 15th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
When the Earth is invaded by colossal green heads, our only hope is to paint the planet orange-red, and they will mistake it for Mars!
June 15th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
I’ve actually seen quite a lot of pre-spaceflight books that paint the Earth that colour. They didn’t know what Earth looked like from orbit, so they presumed it looked similar to other terrestrial worlds: often they painted it extremely cloud-covered, like Venus; often reddish, like Mars.
Boy were they wrong.
June 15th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Nix> Yea you can explain the colour of earth. Not the asteroid field around earth, the three moons and floating scary heads 😛
June 15th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
I’ve actually seen quite a lot of pre-spaceflight books that paint the Earth that colour. They didn’t know what Earth looked like from orbit, so they presumed it looked similar to other terrestrial worlds
that is very trippy to think about!
Good show, Sir! come for the laughs, stay for the philosophy
July 11th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Some cover designers are worse than others at not making Heinlein’s name look like “Roberta”.
July 11th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
In the future, Thanksgiving Day parade balloons will become more ambitious in size.
October 1st, 2011 at 4:31 pm
The original Emsh cover from the hardback 1st is the best one.