Ebook {Epub PDF} Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land could have been titled more straightforwardly Jesus Christ in pre-hippie America. This hefty book is, in a nutshell, about a Man from Mars (that is: a Man from Heaven), who lands somewhere in the USA, doesn’t “grok” (that is: understand) much about human culture, but starts getting some attention, performs a couple of miracles (telekinesis, telepathy), and gathers a few /5. He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (), Starship Troopers (), Double Star (), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (). His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several /5(K). 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/5(4K).

Praise for Robert A. Heinlein and Stranger in a Strange Land "One of the grand masters of science fiction."—Wall Street Journal "A brilliant mind-bender Wonderfully humanizing The name of the leading character in Stranger in a Strange Land is as familiar to millions of literate persons as Oliver Twist or Holden Caulfield."—Kurt Vonnegut, The New York Times Book Review. Stranger in a Strange Land. Humankind sends its first human expedition to Mars. The spaceship's crew arrives on the planet and are never heard from again. Twenty-five years later, another mission is sent, and the child of two of the first ship's crewmembers, who has been born on Mars and raised by the peculiar Martian race, is discovered and. Stranger in a Strange Land was one of the first scifi books I ever read as a kid - and a bit over my head at the time! An odd mix of semi-conservative morals (there is some focus on homophobic concepts, though it seems less anti-gay and more pro-straight), religious iconography, strong liberal morals, anarchy, libertarianism, sex, and scifi.

Stranger in a Strange Land was one of the first scifi books I ever read as a kid - and a bit over my head at the time! An odd mix of semi-conservative morals (there is some focus on homophobic concepts, though it seems less anti-gay and more pro-straight), religious iconography, strong liberal morals, anarchy, libertarianism, sex, and scifi advanced enough to fall under Clarke's Third Law. 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. He was a four-time winner of the Hugo Award for his novels Stranger in a Strange Land (), Starship Troopers (), Double Star (), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (). His Future History series, incorporating both short stories and novels, was first mapped out in The series charts the social, political, and technological changes shaping human society from the present through several centuries into the future.