Finalist, Best Novel, 1959
Have Spacesuit – Will Travel
Robert A. Heinlein (opens in a new tab)
A teenager who wins a used spacesuit in a soap contest is snatched by aliens, along with a girl genius, and ends up defending humanity before a galactic court.
The ballot
- A Case of ConscienceJames BlishBallantine, 1958Winner
- We Have Fed Our Seas (alt: The Enemy Stars)Poul AndersonAstounding Aug,Sep 1958
- Who?Algis BudrysPyramid, 1958
- Time Killer (alt: Immortality, Inc.)Robert SheckleyGalaxy Oct,Nov,Dec 1958, Feb 1959