Have Space Suit, Will Travel, by Robert Heinlein. The part in Chapter 11, where Kip, a teenage boy, is speaking for the whole human race before a court that's about to decide humans are an /eventual/ threat and the punishment is, they'll rotate our planet out of spacetime to freeze in a sunless, starless void, and so dispose of the problem. Kip and the little girl do everything they can to reason with them, but it's no good. They say, "Is there anything more you'd like to say before we judge you?" He makes a speech that I can't even think about without bursting into tears of being proud of him. Something like, "Go ahead, take away our star. You will if you can and I suppose you can. /We'll make our own star. And we'll come back. And hunt down every one of you!/"
We'll make our own star! Wow!
The book starts when he wants to go to college, and then eventually to go to the colonies that we've just started on the moon, but he has no money. He enters a commercial jingle contest for a trip to the moon but only wins the second prize, an old space suit. He fixes it up in the garage so it'll pressurize, fixes the power and lights and radio, puts the suit and helmet on, goes out into his back yard, keys the radio and says a few things, just sadly playing around with it before he has to sell it for money to start at a second-rate college. He's snatched up into space somehow by human traitor thugs in the employ of a selfish unscrupulous alien race. He's kept kidnapped with a genius little girl. Because of his space suit, they escape on the moon, rescue another alien, a watcher-race one who they call the Mother-Thing, and end up in another galaxy, to speak for all of Earth, just these two kids. The aliens also have got a Neanderthal man, and an ancient Roman soldier to judge us by, but they don't really count.
They’re THE REAL THING, not fake at all, and at just $7.95 + 75 cents for postage they’re quite affordable. I ordered one for myself. I would have ordered one for you but I didn’t know your size.
Have Space Suit, Will Travel, by Robert Heinlein. The part in Chapter 11, where Kip, a teenage boy, is speaking for the whole human race before a court that's about to decide humans are an /eventual/ threat and the punishment is, they'll rotate our planet out of spacetime to freeze in a sunless, starless void, and so dispose of the problem. Kip and the little girl do everything they can to reason with them, but it's no good. They say, "Is there anything more you'd like to say before we judge you?" He makes a speech that I can't even think about without bursting into tears of being proud of him. Something like, "Go ahead, take away our star. You will if you can and I suppose you can. /We'll make our own star. And we'll come back. And hunt down every one of you!/"
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The book starts when he wants to go to college, and then eventually to go to the colonies that we've just started on the moon, but he has no money. He enters a commercial jingle contest for a trip to the moon but only wins the second prize, an old space suit. He fixes it up in the garage so it'll pressurize, fixes the power and lights and radio, puts the suit and helmet on, goes out into his back yard, keys the radio and says a few things, just sadly playing around with it before he has to sell it for money to start at a second-rate college. He's snatched up into space somehow by human traitor thugs in the employ of a selfish unscrupulous alien race. He's kept kidnapped with a genius little girl. Because of his space suit, they escape on the moon, rescue another alien, a watcher-race one who they call the Mother-Thing, and end up in another galaxy, to speak for all of Earth, just these two kids. The aliens also have got a Neanderthal man, and an ancient Roman soldier to judge us by, but they don't really count.
Eight zippers, huh? That's handy.
They’re THE REAL THING, not fake at all, and at just $7.95 + 75 cents for postage they’re quite affordable. I ordered one for myself. I would have ordered one for you but I didn’t know your size.
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