it was Heinlein who was changing. He felt that the juveniles were his most important work, a sense that was underlined by Sputnik, which left him “very shook up.” His concerns for the future resulted in the lovely Have Space Suit—Will Travel, in which a boy represents humanity in an interstellar court. It was as strange and moving a novel as he ever wrote, and Campbell was tantalized by it, but passed. When Dalgliesh asked Heinlein to tone down its violence, his response indicated how his feelings had evolved: “I do not think we have better than an even chance of living, as a nation, through
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