Robert Heinlein’s Hugo Award-winning all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science fiction classic.Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of … exceed the limits of humankind, and as he teaches them about grokking and water-sharing, he also inspires a transformation that will alter Earth’s inhabitants forever…
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a true classic
One of Heilein’s best and most popular novels, Stranger has so many great characters and unusual and unexpected storylines to it. Each generation needs to discover it for themselves. Do you grok that?
Heinlein writes a good storey but he often goes off on a tangent and injects a lot of information that distracts from the plot.
It is a classic!
Fabulous story for reminding us all that regardless of
skin color or political /religious belief, everyone just wants to be accepted & loved for who they are.
This is a sci-fi classic that you should not miss!
A must read for all fans of speculative fiction. This book is an important part of our popular culture.
I still think about this book 35 years later. Had to re-read.
Read this book many years ago and could not put it down.
This story will make you think. Also, in the portions where the author tries to give you a glimpse of what is going on elsewhere in the world, you will see things that are going on today.
In this work, Heinlein provides a thought-provoking exploration of religion and conformity, again illustrating why he is a brilliant author.
I’ve read this book about 8 times in my lifetime. It never gets old. The characters are fantastic. I highly recommend reading “Time Enough For Love” as well as “Job”. Heinlein is a master of creating memorable characters.
Heinleins best known book, one of his best written if you find the revision published after he died. Highly recommended
A sci-fi classic. A man.born on mars is discovered as as the only survivor of the first expedition. The man has been raised by Martians and comes back to earth with little knowledge of the human condition. What he discovered became a blueprint for the hippie counterculture. Often required reading for college courses.
Heinlein is the single greatest Science Fiction writer. Stranger in a Strange Land was written in the late 1950s and published in 1961. It tells the story of a human born on mars and adopted by martians, who then returns to Earth. It is one of the greatest books of the 20th Century, although,after the first reading, I recommend that you skip the first 100 pages, or so, an the next read. Worth every penny of the cost, every time I have purchased it. ( paperback, hard cover, and Kindle) You can’t go wrong with a book by Heinlein.
I have read this dozens of times since adolescence and I continue to discover new ideas and truths with each read.
All-time classic from one of the all-time great Sci-Fi authors…. I have probably read this book 10+ time and loved it every time!!! Anything by Heinlein is highly recommended!!!
Best sci-fi ever written
One of Heinlein’s best “adult” novels, if not THE best. I grokked it.
My favorite book. I read a lot.