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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441790340
ISBN: 0441790348
Item Dimensions: 12068847424
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 438
Publication Date: May 15, 1987
Publisher: Ace
Studio: Ace

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• ISBN13: 9780441790340
• Condition: New
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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
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? --Brooks Peck

Product Description:
Epic, entertaining, Stranger in a Strange Land caused controversy and uproar when it was first published. Still topical and challenging today, the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the first man from Mars to visit Earth, is in the great tradition of stories that endure through the power of the author's imagination that stretches from Gulliver's Travels to 1984




Rating: - New Favorite Book
A fine and remarkable book. I can't suggest it too much. The clockwork of society analyzed though the novel eyes of a complete stranger.

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Rating: - Amazing insite into Human Nature
He was more "Human" that the world could stand. He showed people what they could be and they did not like it.

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Rating: - Paradoxically sexist while preaching free love
The first half of the book is very interesting, although it already appears sexist just in the highly unbalanced ratio of speech. Male characters pontificate on and on about whatever subject and are always "teaching" women. This alone did not bother me too much, and the story was interesting. However, the author makes a huge early investment in Ben's character, just to later move him into nearly complete nothingness, and basically replace his role with that of Jubal, who pontificates ad nauseum just ... Read More

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Rating: - Not my favorite Heinlein
Great author, good book. Was able to read most of the book despite Heinlein's misogynistic ideals constantly bleeding through his work. I was even able to read most of it despite my most hated cliche being the centerpiece of the book, the child like all powerful being. However, as I read on a perversion set on as the main charactered really "discovered" women and sex; not to say that these things don't have their place in stories. It became harder and harder to be as immersed in the story as I was ... Read More

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Rating: - Not a compelling story and not science fiction
I couldn't finish this book but I got more than 3/4s of the way through. I gave it a lot more time than I would have liked for a couple reasons. First, the beginning wasn't that bad. I was interested in the first few chapters before it got preachy and plotless. Second, this book is lauded as one of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time and I consider myself a sci-fi enthusiast so I wanted to like it. Of course, both of these reasons made me hate it that much more when I finally did give up on it. My ... Read More

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