The original uncut edition of STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Hugo Award winner Robert A Heinlein
- one of the most beloved celebrated science-fiction novels of all time Epic ambitious & entertaining STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND caused controversy & uproar when it was first published & is still topical & challenging today Twenty-five years ago the first manned mission to Mars was lost & all hands presumed dead But someone survived Born on the doomed spaceship & raised by the Martians who saved his life Valentine Michael Smith has never seen a human being until the day a second expedition to Mars discovers him Upon his return to Earth a young nurse named Jill Boardman sneaks into Smith's hospital room & shares a glass of water with him a simple act for her but a sacred ritual on Mars Now connected by an incredible bond Smith Jill & a writer named Jubal must fight to protect a right we all take for granted the right to love