Talk:Have Space Suit—Will Travel

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The plot synopsis on Have Space Suit—Will Travel was both incomplete and inaccurate, using incorrect names for characters, not naming several characters, and not giving a complete summary of the books' events. I did my best to summarize the book properly as this is one of my favorite Heinlein novels.

--Parcequilfaut 20:35, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm glad you did, too many of Heinlein's novel summaries are like stubs. I have made a few minor changes.--Wehwalt 20:46, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I was doing it blind from memory, I just moved and my copy was in a box. I'll take a look at the others since right now I have nothin' but free time :) --Parcequilfaut 21:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scuba and all that

I have twice eliminated what I think is original research relating to alleged technical errors by Heinlein. This is original research on the editor's part. And even so, it may be wrong, as, for example, the editor talks about what is "usual for a spacesuit". Maybe it is usual for today's spacesuits, but how is it usual for the spacesuit in the story? And how is this anything other than OR?

And the trivia must either be incorporated or eliminated.--Wehwalt 22:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I restored the trivia section: many pages have trivia sections.

OK OK OK, I agree about the errors section: is this short summary OK? As regards "original research", (as with patent law) surely some exception can be made in cases of "obviousness"?

Anthony Appleyard 07:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

What I did was integrate one of the items you left into the plot summary. Maybe you could have a comment, with respect to the other errors you previously cited like "Oscar, unlike present-day space suits, presumably does not . . . " at some appropriate point in the summary. As for the trivia, we are trying to get rid of those sections, but it looked like good and useful content, so I just integrated it into the article! Did a little editing too, hope you don't mind.--Wehwalt 19:05, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Themes

While I'm not sure I'd call this a theme, I've read that "Have Spacesuit..." in the beginning is an explicit manual on how to get a pre-college education that will get you into Caltech or MIT (which it is indeed, at least from memory when I last read it). I'm pretty sure there's something citable out there about this, and it would profitably improve the last paragraph of this section. Hga 03:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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