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Aug 07, 2009
Lisa (Harmonybites)
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This isn't my favorite Heinlein--who is one of my favorite science-fiction authors, but it certainly is among the most original, imaginative, and thought-provoking novels in science fiction. Almost psychedelic... Also eminently readable--and funny.
The protagonist, Valentine Michael Smith, is the orphaned child of two members of an Earth expedition to Mars raised by Martians. As one character describes him: "Smith is an intelligent creature with the ancestry of a man, but he is more Martian than ...more
The protagonist, Valentine Michael Smith, is the orphaned child of two members of an Earth expedition to Mars raised by Martians. As one character describes him: "Smith is an intelligent creature with the ancestry of a man, but he is more Martian than ...more
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Angela Randall
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According to this Reddit thread, this book is some seriously thought-provoking fiction.
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