num_pages: 400
description: This is perhaps Heinlein's most important and significant novel to date.Entertaining, perhaps shocking, it attacks all the religious explanations of faith... undermines the idea of sexual relations based on jealousy... pokes a bitter satirical finger at the materialists and politicians.Like '1984', like 'Brave New World', Stranger in a Strange Land is a searing indictment of Western Civilisation - a staggering, shocking, revealing look at the fundamental urges in our way of life."The best of his many books and best in the genre."--Washington Post
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: New English Library