For the first time in Russian - the complete author's version of the legendary novel. A cult book that has become a reference book for the generation of “flower children” and the entire emerging counterculture. “The Bible of the Sexual Revolution” was so ahead of its time that, in order to avoid a flurry of protests from fanatics and bigots, the author was forced to shorten the manuscript under the working title “The Heretic” by almost a quarter, removing the most “frank” and “ideologically dubious” episodes - and only then did “Stranger in a Strange Land” see the light of day. It is one of the few genre works included in the Library of Congress's list of "Books That Shaped America." And if “The Lord of the Rings” liberated the imagination of millions, then “Stranger in a Strange Land” taught them to “grok to the fullest.” So, meet Valentine Michael Smith - the “Martian Mowgli”. Raised by non-humanoid “old men,” he returns to Earth, where, adapting to customs and gravity that are alien to him and acquiring new “water brothers,” he accelerates through all the stages of growing up: from a vicious origin to an awkward inheritance, from an eccentric upbringing to a scandalous career. and happy fate.