stranger in a strange land

     

Stranger in a Strange Lan is a best-selling 1961 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians on the planet Mars, upon his return to Earth in early adulthood. The novel explores his interaction with — and eventual transformation of — Earth culture. The novel's title refers to the Biblical Book of Exodus. According to Heinlein in Grumbles from the Grave, the novel's working title was The Heretic. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as "The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written."

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  • Robert Heinlein used this phrase from Exodus 2:22 as the title of one of his novels
  • Exodus: "and she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been" this, a Robert Heinlein novel
  • "Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith", begins this Heinlein work
  • 1961:"Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith"

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