READING STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
by Robert Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961
In 1962, Stranger in a Strange Land won the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Novel–and became the first science fiction novel to enter The New York Times Book Review ’s best-seller list.
In 2012, it was included in a Library of Congress exhibition of “Books That Shaped America.”
“I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines. In consequence, each reader gets something different out of that book because he himself supplies the answers … It is an invitation to think – not to believe.”
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”– —Robert Heinlein
Memories of a Time 
” … performing daily trivia until … we become enslaved by it” … I can relate to this! In some ways, though, there is comfort in that daily trivia. I will have to give that one a bit of thought.