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Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
Science fiction
2005 672 pages 3.92·2 threads
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Epic, entertaining, Stranger in a Strange Land caused controversy and uproar when it was first published. Still topical and challenging today, the story of Valentine Michael Smith, the first man from Mars to visit Earth, is in the great tradition of stories that endure through the power of the author's imagination that stretches from Gulliver's Travels to 1984
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New quote →@darthvader69
just had my mind blown by the concept of grokking, it's like a mix of empathy and telepathy, makes me think of similar ideas in Dune.
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@darthvader69
I love how this explores the concept of otherness, it's like a philosophical crash course on empathy and culture, reminds me of Le Guin's ansible conundrums.
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