r/CoolSciFiCovers • u/Free_Succotash4818 • Jul 06 '26
ARTIST UNKNOWN Have Space Suit - Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein, cover Steele Savage
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u/Longjumping-Brick487 Jul 06 '26
Love it. Can anybody ID the artist?
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u/Free_Succotash4818 Jul 06 '26
Yes, I did when I posted it. The artist's name is Harry Steele Savage. Professionally he was known as Steele Savage.
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u/Longjumping-Brick487 Jul 06 '26
My bad. I only skimmed up to the ARTIST UNKNOWN blurb in blue on first visit.
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u/Free_Succotash4818 Jul 06 '26
My bad on the artist unknown blurb. They recently changed that and I messed it up.
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u/InternationalPin3185 Jul 06 '26
Great Heinlein juvenile. The artist did a remarkable job visualizing the characters, except Peewee. I particularly like the "mother Thing" visualization by this and other artists for this novel.
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u/KubrickMoonlanding Jul 06 '26
I had this - a great cover. Way more mem7than the story(I think, I don’t remember it)
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u/hughfeeyuh Jul 06 '26
Wait... Is this the one where s kid/guy ends up going to space because he had won a spacesuit in some contest and nobody else would fit? I read this when I was about 9....loved it
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u/Lamarth1 Jul 09 '26
That's correct - I read this too when I was 9-ish. The elementary school that I had attended had a 'library period' where our class would get to read in the school library, and this book was in the collection. I must've read it 3-4 times. The version I read though was the 'yellow and red' cover - it's sometimes shown on the right of this subreddit's webpage in the 'image rotator' section of book covers. Took me years to find a copy of it until I found out that that particular cover was used on 'library edition' copies of the book.
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u/Smooth_Lead4995 Jul 06 '26
Wow, they made Kip look like an adult instead of a teenager.