- Hugo Award Winner, Fiction, Fiction in English, Science fiction
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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Classical in form, contemplative, open-ended and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 438
- Publisher
- Ace Books, Berkley Medallion Books, Putnam
- Editions
- 80
- Language
- French, Swedish, English, heb
- ISBN
- 9783870702526
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“ONCE UPON a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.”
Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science
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