Stranger in a Strange Land

Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land taught me that sometimes you should indulge the urge to pitch a book into the trash can.

-- Ricardo Signes

In fiction, and regarding life in general, Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" -- I read it at a young, impressionable age, and it jolted me right out of any temptation I might have felt to conform into respectable middle-class canons, into finding out exactly who and what I was and then being that person (me), whatever society's expectation might be...

-- Alex Martelli