[JoeProBono]

[Martin Tell]

A couple of weeks ago, I heard Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, use the word "Grok" twice in a speech.

First time in over 30 years I've heard anyone use the word in a non-ironic sense.

[counterpunch]

[Borges]

his most famous novel

his only novel. Only published novel thus far anyway.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

From Salinger to Heinlien? Can anyone tell what is the connection? Read the article and for the life of me cannot tell what connection the two authors or works have in common. Is it me, or does the author just want to talk about “Stranger in a Strange Land”? Weird.

[GeronL]

Thats a Heinlein book I don’t want to read.

Morality is important.

Otherwise you get liberals.

[struggle]

[NMEwithin]

I grok this...

[GSWarrior]

I didn’t get too far in Stranger before I got too bored to continue. Moon is a Harsh Mistress is better, IMHO.

[r9etb]

Stranger in a Strange Land is the Catcher in the Rye of SF

I suppose.... I would also suggest that Stranger in a Strange Land marks the beginning of Heinlein's descent from a solid SF writer, to the man whose later books obsessed on the subjects of incest and breakfast.

[the long march]

Lord what a pompus ass. It is a work of fiction. If you want more depth then he should have read some additional works. Not everything is about the ‘gays’ of SF even if this idiot thinks it should be

[uncbob]

Never could understand the acclaim given to Catcher in the Rye

I thought it was depressing

Cult type following