# I've just re-read Stranger in a Strange Land for the umpty-fifth time

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**Created:** [December 16, 2009, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-just-re-read-stranger-in-a-strange-land-for-the-umpty-fifth-time/521439 "2009-12-16T02:47:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-just-re-read-stranger-in-a-strange-land-for-the-umpty-fifth-time/521439/41 "2009-12-18T04:32:34Z")

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> Podkayne is one of my favorite novels of Heinlein, even though it’s a juve.

Which ending? I first read it when I was a kid, and I read the editor’s ending. When the edition with both endings came out, I bought and read it. I think that Heinlein was right, the ending he originally wrote is the ending that the book needed.

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