Stranger in a Strange Land - on Playaway Author:Robert A. Heinlein Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads just press play! — "The most famous science fiction novel written, Stranger in a Strange Lan... more »d is the epic saga of an earthling, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man. His name is Valentine Michael Smith, and he is destined to become a freak, a media commodity, a scam artist, a searcher, a sexual pioneer, a neon evangelist, a martyr, and finally, a messiah.
This novel became not only the bible of the ""love generation,"" it managed to transcend the science fiction genre to achieve the status of a modern classic; or, as others put it, Heinlein's earthly ""divine comedy.""
Robert A. Heinlein's novel was published in 1961 in a cut, or censored, version. This Blackstone audiobook is read from the Ace paperback version published in 1987 and thus is the ""as published"" version. The full, uncut text was not made available until 1991."« less