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...Robert A. Heinlein's science-fiction novel about a human reared on Mars who returns to earth cheerfully prepared to eliminate anyone who stands in the way of his propagation of a superior race (TIME...
...self-styled "family" of killing Sharon Tate and six other people, are true, Manson showed no powers of invention at all. In the weeks since his indictment, those connected with the case have discovered that he may have murdered by the book. The book is Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, an imaginative science-fiction novel long popular among hippies...
...life was lived at Manson's ranch. In book and in life, the complete abandonment of personal ego to the all-powerful leader, usually through sexual submissiveness, was essential. The fictional Smith and the real Manson apparently shared a belief in their oneness with God. "Among Martians," Heinlein's hero says, "there is only one religion-and it is not a faith, it's a certainty: 'Thou art God!' " Manson's followers often called him God, Jesus or Satan...
...most disquieting similarity between Manson's life and the novel concerns death. Heinlein's Martian teaches a bizarre philosophy of reincarnation. Beings do not die; they are simply "discorporated" and "sent back to the end of the line to try again." He enlists one of his female followers to help him discorporate some enemies of the cult. The Martian makes a list of those to be dispatched, and in one evening 450 are killed. Police believe that Manson, like the Martian, used his women to perform the grisly revenge that he sought on the group gathered with Sharon...
...Robert Heinlein, usually master of quick exposition and blood-and-blasters, wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, and it is fine. It is not about the toys men play with, or the fall of governments. It presents a new man and a new experience-and a world is built around it all in staggering detail, not as "background" but as part of a totality...