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Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Two years after his novel Starship Troopers, which incurred charges that he was a militarist, Heinlein offered up Stranger in a Strange Land, which would establish him as a free love guru of the hippie generation. That must be like attending West Point in the morning, and leading a protest at Berkeley in the afternoon. Certainly somebody must be confuse…

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