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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100441788386

ISBN-139780441788385

eBay Product ID (ePID)156954

Product Key Features

Book TitleStranger in a Strange Land

Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1991

TopicClassics, Science Fiction / Alien Contact, Literary, Science Fiction / General

GenreFiction

AuthorRobert A. Heinlein

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"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 "Certainly among the most influential...science fiction novel[s] of all time."-- The Guardian " This book was destined to become a bestseller, shaping the sensibilities of a generation...The uncut novel more explicitly exhibits the author's views on human sexulatiy, women's issues, and geopolitics."-- Boston Globe, "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 "Certainly among the most influential...science fiction novel[s] of all time."-- The Guardian " This book was destined to become a bestseller, shaping the sensibilities of a generation...The uncut novel more explicitly exhibits the author's views on human sexuality, women's issues, and geopolitics."-- Boston Globe, 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......Some 60,000 words that were cut from Heinlein's manuscript for economy back in 1961 are at last taking their rightful place in the body of world literature."--Kurt Vonnegut, The New York Times Book Review "Certainly among the most influential...science fiction novel[s] of all time."-- The Guardian "This book was destined to become a bestseller, shaping the sensibilities of a generation...The uncut novel more explicitly exhibits the author's views on human sexuality, women's issues, and geopolitics."-- The Boston Globe "One of the most popular science fiction novels ever published."-- Library Journal

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisThe complete, uncut version of Robert A. Heinlein's 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. 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...

LC Classification NumberPS35315.E288