Stranger in a Strange Land

528 pages

English language

Published March 30, 1991

ISBN:
9780441788385

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Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and eventual transformation of—terrestrial culture. The title is an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22. According to Heinlein, the novel's working title was The Heretic. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as "The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written".

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I'd never read this "classic" SF book before this summer, and I really wasn't missing much. I disliked pretty much everything about this book. Part of the problem was surely my distaste for the religious ideas that the book puts forward, but Heinlein's patronizing attitudes and unengaging writing style didn't help.

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