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smcrain 's review for:
Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
Okay to be fair; I didn't finish this book, in fact, I barely started this. Not sure why I queued it up since I wasn't a huge fan of Starship Troopers. This is a very bizarre sci-fi. The "future" doesn't feel like a future at all, the dialogue, viewpoint on women, and overall futuristic elements, or lack there of, feels more like I'm transported to the 1950-60s versus being at a point where man has managed to send settlers to Mars. They don't even have cameras. They've got a high security "prisoner" of sorts and there's barely any surveillance. They talk about "audio bugs" like that's the big spy tech. I couldn't get far in this bizarre setting. It wasn't a throw back post-apocalyptic setting either, so it just seems to be lack of imagination on the part of Heinlein. His future view isn't one I'm interested in; where humanity has only seemed to plateau at the time of concept or, as someone reading this decades later, have regressed.