Sranger in a Strange Land
A 1962 Science Fiction novel by 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. The title is an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22. Heinlein got the idea for the novel when he and his wife were brain storming one night in 1948. They got the idea from The jungle book, but with a child raised by martians instead of wolves. It was published June 1, 1961. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as " The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written" In 2012 the U.S Library of Congress named it one of the 88 " Books that shaped America"
A 1962 Science Fiction novel by 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. The title is an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22. Heinlein got the idea for the novel when he and his wife were brain storming one night in 1948. They got the idea from The jungle book, but with a child raised by martians instead of wolves. It was published June 1, 1961. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as " The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written" In 2012 the U.S Library of Congress named it one of the 88 " Books that shaped America"