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Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, a small town some sixty-five miles south of Kansas City. He and his six brothers and sisters were raised in Kansas City, where he attended grade school and high school, graudating from Central High in 1...

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907, in Butler, Missouri. He dropped out of the University of Missouri in 1925 to enlist in the U.S. Navy, in which he served as an officer on several ships,...

Stranger in a Strange Land is a best-selling 1961 Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human raised by Martians on the planet Mars, upon his return to Earth in early adulthood....

Remembering the 1762 Cherokee Delegation to London "AS TO THE MANNERS OF THE INDIANS, I GRANT THEY HAVE been often represented, and yet I have never seen any account to my perfect satisfaction, " wrote Virginia lieutenant Henry Timberlake in his 1765 Memoirs....

THE SAINT OF INCIPIENT INSANITIES By Elif Shafak. Farrar Straus Giroux. 351 pp. $25 Elif Shafak was born in France and raised in Spain, has published four novels in Turkish and now teaches at the University of Michigan. She may be intimate...

Robert A. Heinlein is an outstanding figure in modern American science fiction. He has published voluminously, his science fiction sells well, and his work continues to be in print. His Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers have sold in the millions, especially in college bookstores. He has been described as one of the "fathers" of modern science fiction. He is also one of the few science fiction writers who have helped in making science fiction well known in "mainstream�...

There are two ways to review Robert A. Heinlein's work since Stranger in a Strange Land, excepting … The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. With that exception, there is a pre-1961 Heinlein and then there is this "new" fellow…. The old Heinlein was a crisp, slick wordsmith of uncommon intelligence and subtlety. His gift for characterization was sharp within its narrow limits, and those limits were fortuitously placed to include the archetypical science fiction hero…. All his...

[Heinlein's] own statement of his intent in writing [Stranger in a Strange Land] may well be noted; but it is not necessarily the reader's best guide in his perusal of it. "My purpose in this book," the author says, "was to examine every major axiom of the western culture, to question each axiom, throw doubt on it—and, if possible, to make the antithesis of each axiom appear a possible and perhaps desirable thing—rather than unthinkable." An ambitious ...

A review of Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, about the experiences of a human born on Mars who is brought to Earth by a manned spacecraft.