> Heinlein wrote a book in favor of polyamory Heinlein has explicitly said that Stranger in a Strange Land was not an effort to convince people to live in any

> Heinlein wrote a book in favor of polyamory Heinlein has explicitly said that Stranger in a Strange Land was not an effort to convince people to live in any particular way. >“I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines. In consequence, each reader gets something different out of that book because he himself supplies the answers... It is an invitation to think -- not to believe.” https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/lifetimes/vonnegut-stranger_heinlein.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/l... Advocating that people should be willing to reconsider their deeply held cultural beliefs was a major theme in Heinlein's later works.