The story of Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who
arrives on our planet super-human in abilities and ignorant of sex as we
know it. He shocks the mores of Western culture by attempting to
set up a strange and fascinating discipline on Earth: the first step
is learning to Grok...
"Uses satire, humor, fantasy, remarkable characters... evidently Heinlein
intended his book to be disturbing, shocking and entertaining. It
is. It sparkles and crackles and produces goose bumps of apprehension
and dissatisfaction with the human race... The best of his many books..."
-WASHINGTON POST
"...A glimpse of love, of worship, of honor and devotion more basic and
more pure than anything earth has seen since the days of apostolic Christianity...
unsettling, swift-paced, excellent and infuriating... bears out the premise
that good science fiction is - good fiction." - THEODORE
STURGEON
