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Am a huge Heinlein fan, am currently reading through a (near?) complete collection of his books on my HD. Friday was the first of his I read, loaned to me by a friend.
Stranger in a Strange Land was first released in a heavily rewritten version with a big part of the original removed, if you read it as first released then again years later you may well have read much more than the first time.
"The earlier edition contained a few words over 160,000, while this one runs
around 220,000 words."
"This book was so different from what was being sold to the general public, or
to the science fiction reading public in 1961 when it was published, that the
editors required some cutting and removal of a few scenes that might then
have been offensive to public taste."
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