Facts about Stranger in a Strange Land

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   Stranger in a Strange Land has been adapted into at least three different screenplays since the 1970s, though no film version has ever reached production due to the novel's complex themes and explicit content.

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   Heinlein's 1968 novel sold over 3 million copies by the 1980s and became a counterculture touchstone that influenced 1960s communes and free love movements.

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   Valentine Michael Smith, the protagonist of Heinlein's 1968 science fiction novel, was raised by Martians and returns to Earth as a human messiah figure who founds a free-love commune.

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   The novel's term grok, meaning to understand deeply and intuitively, has entered English dictionaries and is used in technology and scientific communities today.

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   Robert Heinlein's 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land was rejected by multiple publishers before finally being published by Putnam in 1968.

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