Stranger in a Strange Land

Name: Stranger in a Strange Land
Rating: 3.775943396226415 (848 reviews)
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
ISBN: 9780425022023

by Robert A. Heinlein, James Warhola

3.8

(848 ratings)

530 pages1961Berkley Publishing CorporationISBN 9780425022023

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About this book

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...

Publication Details

Publisher: Berkley Publishing Corporation
Published: 1961
Pages: 530
ISBN: 9780425022023
Language: en

About Robert A. Heinlein

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 fiction. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein).)