Word: jubal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero of Stranger is Valentine Michael Smith, a human who, somewhat like Kipling's Mowgli, was reared from infancy by nonhumans, in his case Martians, and in the process acquired hypnotic and magical powers. He comes to earth, is tutored by a man called Jubal, then sets out as a self-styled god to save man from himself by propagating his own superior kind and gleefully dispatching those who stand in his way. Manson named an illegitimate child Valentine Michael Smith and nicknamed his parole officer Jubal. That, however, was only the beginning...