Stranger in a Strange Land

Valentine Michael Smith, born of human astronauts on Mars and raised entirely by Martians, returns to Earth as a legal heir to untold wealth and power. Possessing strange psionic abilities and Martian concepts like "grokking" and "water-brotherhood", Mike is sheltered by cynical polymath lawyer-doctor Jubal Harshaw, eventually founding a revolutionary movement that challenges Earth's religious, sexual, and social dogmas.

A counterculture touchstone of the 1960s. Introduced the word "grok" into the Oxford English Dictionary. Selected by the Library of Congress as one of 88 books that shaped American history.