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by Christopher Hurt Robert A. Heinlein (Author)
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Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with psi powers—telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.

After his tutelage under a surrogate-father figure, Valentine begins his transformation into a messiah figure. His introduction into Earth society, together with his exceptional abilities, lead Valentine to become many things to many people: freak, scam artist, media commodity, searcher, free-love pioneer, neon evangelist, and martyr.

Heinlein won his second Hugo award for this novel, sometimes called Heinlein’s earthly “divine comedy.”

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  • Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (July 15, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0786174307
  • ISBN-13: 978-0786174300
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5.4 x 1.8 inches
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3.0 out of 5 stars Strong opening; a tiresome slog therafter, July 3, 2009
By Librum "6nomad9" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
  
At least one reviewer on this page characterizes SIASL as "juvenile". I'd have to say that pretty well sums up the greater part of this book. In its day SIASL may have shone a light on the prevailing counter-cultural trends in American society. And it may have been cutting edge sci-fi. As such, it is perhaps of historical interest to those who might be interested. To the casual reader, however, it's a pretty tiresome read. The opening section, which deals with the protagonist's arrival on earth and initial adaptation thereto is quite interesting and well-paced. The greater part of what remains, however, is given over to endless anthropological/religious historical musings of one sort or another, interlaced with endlessly banal descriptions of life in the Utopian commune our hero founds. Much of this material fails either to titillate the reader's senses or to stimulate his/her intellect. It reads like one long (LONG) masturbatory exercise on the author's part -- well-written, in fairness, but rather...juvenile. As for the novel's ending: you'll spot it coming a mile away. In the final analysis: SIASL is a creature of its times, ill-suited to our own.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I Guess You Had To Be There, September 17, 2007
By Steven J. Bissell (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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Right at the beginning of the `Flower Power Era' Robert Heinlein published this monumental work. It is monumental for a couple of reasons. It was one of the first SciFi works to make it into the `Best Seller' lists of non-SciFi ratings. It essentially broke that barrier forever. The book won Heinlein the 1962 Hugo and received more attention than some of his more solid SciFi works. The book was widely read by people in the beginning of the Vietnam protest, the drug culture (although Heinlein disapproved of any drug other than ethanol), and the `Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out' philosophy. For a few years it spanned a minor cultural movement and I must admit for a briefly embarrassing time my friends and I would say, "Can you Grok that?" rather than "Do you understand?" or even, "Can you dig it?" Fortunately or otherwise this did not last (unlike the even weirder work of L. Ron Hubbard) and no lasting harm was done.

This Audio CD version seems to be based on the fabled `long' version. When Heinlein wrote this, it was well over 200,000 words. As originally published it was much less. I think everything is in here because I found myself wishing about half the time that it was over. You can never go home and it is probably better not to revisit something of your youth with high expectations. When I saw this Blackstone Audio `New Edition' I snapped it up with just those high expectations. Now the long, long, long dialogues (or diatribes) about love, sex, god, cannibalism, and such are more boring than uplifting.

Having been critical I'd still recommend the Audio CD or the book (albeit the shorter version) and give it 5 stars. I do that because it is, in the best sense, a classic of SciFi and deserves your attention. Heinlein raised modern SciFi out of a sub-genre and into the mainstream. You can take or leave his philosophy, but he was one hell of a writer.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hear a tale that will lever you wanting more, October 2, 2006
The title says it all. As you read this story of a stranger who brings more than novelty to his new world, different people will read different things into the story. I suggest you read "Stranger in a Strange Land" for your self and draw your own conclusions. Remember this is no longer the 60' so don't go out and build a water-brother nest.

If you read an older version of this book, then you have missed a little something. Many of the words were cut out of the book before it was published. Moreover, due to contractual agreements the missing part of the book could not be printed while Robert A. Heinlein was alive. Now dead the missing pages have been restored to many versions.

Now all bets are off. So count the words in the copy you are about to buy and be sure you have the whole thing. And for those people who read the original release I suggest you re-read to see what you missed

If you have not read other Heinlein books then you may not realize how his writing stile has changed over his life time. This book is more of a latter Heinlein style. Some people like both early and late Hein lend others prefer one or the other.

The audio versions have all the pluses and minuses of audio. So you will also want a copy of the book for reference.

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