11/20/2023 0 Comments Robert heinlein audiobook![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-five years later, the spacecraft Champion makes contact with the inhabitants of Mars and finds a single survivor, Valentine Michael Smith. Prior to WWIII the crewed spacecraft Envoy is launched toward Mars, but all contact is lost shortly before landing. There is a World Federation of Free Nations, including the demilitarized US, with a world government supported by Special Service troops. It is set in a post- Third World War United States, where organized religions are politically powerful. The story focuses on a human raised on Mars and his adaptation to and understanding of humans and their culture. In 2012, the Library of Congress named it one of 88 "Books that Shaped America". Stranger in a Strange Land won the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel and became the first science fiction novel to enter The New York Times Book Review's best-seller list. Critics disagree about which version is superior. Heinlein's widow Virginia arranged to have the original unedited manuscript published in 1991, three years after Heinlein's death. The working title for the book was "A Martian Named Smith", which was also the name of the screenplay started by a character at the end of the novel. The title "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a direct quotation from the King James Bible (taken from Exodus 2:22). 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, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture. Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. ![]()
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