num_pages: 400
description: NAME: Valentine Michael SmithANCESTRY: HumanORIGIN: MarsValentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.
language: English
title: Stranger in a Strange Land
titlecomplete: Stranger in a Strange Land
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: 307726
series: Stranger in a Strange Land
awards: awardedAt: -252432000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton