Stranger in A Strange Land - Editions

Editions

Two major versions of this book exist:

  • The 1961 version, which was cut 27.24% from Heinlein's original manuscript by the publisher due to the excessive length and to excise objectionable material.
  • The 1991 version, retrieved from Heinlein's archives in the University of California, Santa Cruz, Special Collections Department by his widow and published posthumously, which reproduces the original manuscript and restores all cuts. Both Heinlein's agent and his publisher (which had new senior editors) agreed that the uncut version was better: readers are used to longer books, and what was seen as objectionable in 1961 was no longer so thirty years later.

Many printed editions exist:

  • June 1, 1961, Putnam Publishing Group, hardcover, ISBN 0-399-10772-X
  • Avon, NY, 1st paperback edition, 1961.
  • 1965, New English Library Ltd, (London).
  • March 1968, Berkley Medallion. paperback, ISBN 425-04688-5 or ISBN 0-425-04688-5
  • July 1970, New English Library Ltd, (London). 400 pages, paperback. (3rd 'new edition', August 1971 reprint, is NEL 2844, no ISBN quoted.)
  • 1972, Capricorn Books, 408 pages, ISBN 0-399-50268-8
  • October 1975, Berkley Publishing Group, paperback, ISBN 0-425-03067-9
  • November 1977, Berkley Publishing Group, paperback, ISBN 0-425-03782-7
  • July 1979, Berkley Publishing Group, paperback, ISBN 0-425-04377-0
  • September 1980, Berkley Publishing Group, paperback, ISBN 0-425-04688-5
  • July 1982, Berkley Publishing Group, paperback, ISBN 0-425-05833-6
  • July 1983, Penguin Putnam, paperback, ISBN 0-425-06490-5
  • January 1984, Berkley Publishing Group, paperback, ISBN 0-425-07142-1
  • May 1, 1984, Berkley Publishing Group, paperback, ISBN 0-425-05216-8
  • December 1984, Berkley Publishing Group, ISBN 0-425-08094-3
  • November 1986, Berkley Publishing Group, paperback, ISBN 0-425-10147-9
  • January 1991, uncut edition, Ace/Putnam, hardcover, ISBN 0-399-13586-3
  • May 3, 1992, original uncut edition, Hodder and Stoughton, mass market paperback, 655 pages, ISBN 0-450-54742-6
  • October 1, 1991, uncut edition, Ace Books, paperback, 528 pages, ISBN 0-441-78838-6
  • 1995, Easton Press (MBI, Inc), uncut edition, leather bound hardcover, 525 pages
  • August 1, 1995, ACE Charter, paperback, 438 pages, ISBN 0-441-79034-8
  • April 1, 1996, Blackstone Audiobooks, cassette audiobook, ISBN 0-7861-0952-1
  • October 1, 1999, Sagebrush, library binding, ISBN 0-8085-2087-3
  • June 1, 2002, Blackstone Audiobooks, cassette audiobook, ISBN 0-7861-2229-3
  • January 2003, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, hardcover, ISBN 0-606-25126-X
  • November 1, 2003, Blackstone Audiobooks, CD audiobook, ISBN 0-7861-8848-0
  • March 14, 2005, Hodder and Stoughton, paperback, 655 pages, ISBN 0-340-83795-0

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