Remembering Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

For a generation of science fiction fans who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) was a book that changed lives: a huge, bizarre, magical, loosely-knit satire of nearly everything. It recounts the adventures of Valentine Michael Smith (or Mike), a young man who is born on Mars and raised by the Martians, before being brought to a wacky near-future Earth. He is befriended by wise old Jubal Harshaw, the novel’s authorial spokesman or ‘Heinlein figure’ (though he is presented as much older than Heinlein actually was at the time). Jubal becomes Mike’s mentor and protector, then eventually something more like a disciple.

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Posted by Jasmin Wilson@Fashion and Vintage  on  05/18  at  04:28 AM

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Posted by fashion and vintage  on  06/08  at  10:42 AM

Thanks for the list. Some great stuff listed. Stranger became a cult classic, with an audience far beyond science fiction's usual reach prior to the Star Wars era. It celebrated the human body (the characters seem to be nude as often as not), advocated fashion and vintage open sexual relationships and laughed at politics, jealousy, organized religion and moral convention.

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