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Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth's cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention de facto owner of the planet Mars. With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs.
The impact of Stranger in a Strange Land was considerable, leading many children of the 60's to set up households based on Michael's water-brother nests. Heinlein loved to pontificate through the mouths of his characters, so modern readers must be willing to overlook the occasional sour note ("Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault."). That aside, Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the master's best entertainments, provocative as he always loved to be. Can you grok it?
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Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1962, award:hugo_award=novel, Fiction, Fiction in English, Science fiction, American Science fiction, Religion, Cults, Sects, Martians, Life on other planets, Fiction, science fiction, general, Human-alien encounters, Fiction, general, Earth, Martians--fiction, Great powers, Great powers--fiction, Human-alien encounters--fiction, Ps3515.e288 s88 1987Showing 11 featured editions. View all 70 editions?
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En terre étrangère: roman
2014, R. Laffont
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- Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une postface de Gérard Klein.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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Ein Mann in einer fremden Welt: Science Fiction-Roman
1980, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag
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The Great Science Fiction of Robert A. Heinlein Boxed Set
October 1, 1980, Berkley
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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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