Stranger in a Strange Land

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 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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608 pages

Average rating: 6.91

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E Clou
May 10, 2023
8/10 stars
I recently reread this and still really enjoyed it. The plot is well-worn but the details of the story are fun. Though many of the characters are somewhat flat I really enjoyed the father-figure character, Jubal Harshaw.

Also, here's a link on the flags of Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mars.
LiziB
Feb 23, 2023
10/10 stars
loved this... then pretty much hated everything else of his I ever read. His ideas about women are just dumb.

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