Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with …
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Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians, and explores his interaction with and eventual transformation of Terran culture. The title "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a direct quotation from the King James Bible (taken from Exodus 2:22). The working title for the book was "A Martian Named Smith", which was also the name of the screenplay started by a character at the end of the novel.Heinlein's widow Virginia arranged to have the original unedited manuscript published in 1991, three years after Heinlein's death. Critics disagree about which version is superior. Stranger in a Strange Land won the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel and became the first science fiction novel to enter The New York Times Book Review's best-seller list. In 2012, the Library of Congress named it one of 88 "Books that Shaped America".
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Forastero en tierra extraña
Paperback, 720 pages
Spanish language
Published Dec. 20, 1991
- ISBN:
- 978-84-233-2065-3Copied ISBN!
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- 2527450
Stranger in a Strange Land
525 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1991 by Putnam.
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- 978-0-399-13586-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 782851
Fremder in einer fremden Welt
Paperback, 668 pages
German language
Published April 9, 1996 by Bastei Lübbe, Lübbe.
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- 978-3-404-24214-6Copied ISBN!
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- 1035526
Stranger in a Strange Land
Paperback, 672 pages
English language
Published April 9, 2005 by Hodder & Stoughton Paperbacks.
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- 978-0-340-83795-5Copied ISBN!
Stranger in a Strange Land
528 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1991 by Ace.
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- 978-0-441-78838-5Copied ISBN!
Stranger in a Strange Land
498 pages
English language
Published April 9, 2016
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- 978-0-14-311162-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 946058580
Stranger in a strange land
655 pages
English language
Published June 2, 1991 by New English Library, New English Library Ltd, Hodder & Stoughton.
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- 978-0-450-54742-3Copied ISBN!
Stranger in a Strange Land
Paperback, 655 pages
English language
Published June 1, 2007 by Hodder & Stoughton, imusti.
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- 978-0-340-93834-8Copied ISBN!
Straniero in terra straniera
Italian language
Published April 9, 2009
- ISBN:
- 978-88-347-1053-1Copied ISBN!
Stranger in a Strange Land
audio cassette
English language
Published April 9, 2002 by Blackstone Audiobooks.
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- 978-0-7861-2229-5Copied ISBN!
Stranger in a Strange Land
652 pages
German language
Published April 9, 2009
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- 978-3-453-52548-1Copied ISBN!
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- 7486042
Stranger in a Strange Land
525 pages
Published April 9, 1991
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