寮備埂寮傚 Stranger In A Strange Land_003

ll the editors and senior officers at thepublishing house had changed. So this version was a complete surprise tothem.
　　They decided to publish the original version, agreeing that it was betterthan the cut one.
　　You now have in your hands the original version of Stranger in a StrangeLand, as written by Robert Anson Heinlein.
　　The given names of the chief characters have great importance to the plot.
　　They were carefully selected: Jubal means .the father of all,“ Michael standsfor ,fake chanel bags.Who is like God?“ I leave it for the reader to find out what the othernames mean. -Virginia Heinlein Carmel, California
Chapter 1
ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martiannamed Smith.
　　Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.
　　The first human expedition from Terra to Mars was selected on the theorythat the greatest danger to man in space was man himself. At that time, onlyeight Terran years after the founding of the first human colony on Luna,foamposite for cheap, anyinterplanetary trip made by humans necessarily had to be made in wearyfree-fail orbits, doubly tangent semi-ellipses—from Terra to Mars, twohundred fifty-eight days, the same for the return journey, plus four hundredfifty-five days waiting at Mars while the two planets crawled slowly back intorelative positions which would permit shaping the doubly-tangent orbit-a totalof almost three Earth years.
　　Besides its wearing length,Link, the trip was very chancy. Only by refueling at aspace station, then tacking back almost into Earth’s atmosphere, could thisprimitive flying coffin, the Envoy, make the trip at all. Once at Mars she mightbe able to return-if she did not crash in landing, if water could be found onMan to fill her reaction-mass tanks,cheap foamposites, if some sort of food could be found onMars, if a thousand other things did not go wrong.
　　But the physical danger was judged to be less important than thepsychological stresses. Eight humans, crowded together like monkeys foralmost three Terran years, had