Syfy, the NBCUniversal-owned cable network, is developing Robert Heinlein’s 1961 classic science fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, into a TV series.
They are teaming with Paramount Television and Universal Cable Productions to create the series. It will mark the third partnership series between the two networks, the others being the upcoming Spike TV series, Pendergast, and USA’s Shooter.
Stranger in a Strange Land centers around Valentine Michael Smith, a human who was raised on Mars and returns to Earth. Smith struggles to comprehend Earth’s culture, and founds both a church and a movement in response to his experiences. The book is seen by some as a parallel to, and in some ways a predictor of, the 1960’s counterculture movement in America.
Stranger in a Strange Land won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1962, the year after it was published. It was one of four of Heinlein’s novels to win the Hugo Award, the others being Double Star, Starship Troopers, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
In 2012, the US Library of Congress named it one of the eighty-eight “Books that Shaped America.”
