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A review by jnzllwgr
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
4.0
A pleasant enough read after nearly 30 years… a bit a victim (or child) of its time, SIASL possesses that snappy dialog of a mid-20th century dime-store detective novel, mixed with the then emerging hippy, free love 60s culture, Tim Leary-esque concepts of transhumanism, space travel and life extension and, for efficiency’s sake, what I’d call a theosophist’s take on religion.
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Kind of a nice contrast/compliment to Neuromancer which focused similarly on the nature of consciousness and human evolution, but less dependent on tech. That’s also a weak spot of the novel where Heinlein’s dated ideas of the future technologies feels more Jules Verne than, say, Frank Herbert.
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Kind of a nice contrast/compliment to Neuromancer which focused similarly on the nature of consciousness and human evolution, but less dependent on tech. That’s also a weak spot of the novel where Heinlein’s dated ideas of the future technologies feels more Jules Verne than, say, Frank Herbert.