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"Straniero in terra straniera" (Stranger in a Strange Land), pubblicato nel 1961, è uno dei romanzi più celebri di Robert A. Heinlein, un pilastro della fantascienza che mescola satira sociale, filosofia e speculazione culturale. La storia segue Valentine Michael Smith, un umano cresciuto su Marte da una civiltà aliena, che torna sulla Terra e si confronta con una società umana a lui estranea. Attraverso il suo punto di vista "alieno", Heinlein esplora temi come la religione, la sessualità, il p
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This book is like that awful older relative from a different generation that shows up at random family functions. Half of your family thinks he is funny and brilliant and makes excuses for his bad behavior and outdated remarks on women, homosexuality, etc., because, well, that's just Uncle so and so and things were different back then but isn't he a hoot! And the other half is just waiting for him to croak because... BECAUSE HE IS SO PAINFULLY OUTDATED AND THE TIMES, THANKFULLY, HAVE CHANGED.
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