| Re: STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND:
personally I would say that SIASL is one of the best books ever not just for plot, which is great, but for the ideas and questions which it raises.
nearly all the SF worth reading is based on the question "what if.............?" and Heilein is a master at finding ways to fill that space between "if" and the question mark.
he is also great at setting the social/political/economic scene that the story is set within, quite often with just a few simple statements (excellently demonstrated in the FH series). |