description: 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 kind of messiah. His exceptional abilities lead Valentine to become many things to many freak, scam artist, media commodity, searcher, free-love pioneer, neon evangelist, and martyr.Heinlein won his second Hugo Award for this novel, sometimes called his ''divine comedy'' and often called his masterpiece. Stranger in a Strange Land caused controversy and uproar when it was first published. Still topical and challenging today it is in the great tradition of stories that endure through the power of the author's imagination that stretches from Gulliver's Travels to 1984 .This Blackstone audiobook is the ''as published'' version, read from an Ace paperback published in 1987. It is not the uncut, uncensored version that Heinlein originally wrote , but which wasn't published until 1991.
language: English
title: Stranger in a Strange Land, Library Edition
titlecomplete: Stranger in a Strange Land, Library Edition
characters: Gillian Boardman, Ben Caxton, Valentine Michael Smith, Jubal Harshaw
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Religion, Speculative Fiction, Philosophy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy, Audiobook
ratings_count: 307729
series: Stranger in a Strange Land
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Lib Ed