Have you ever wished for a Kyle XY book to hold you off during the season intermissions? Great News! One was written almost fifty years ago.

I’ve been attempting to read all 100 of the top sci-fi books, and #6 checks in as Stranger in a Strange Land By Robert Heinlein. While I’m not quite done the book, the protagonist, Michael Valentine Smith, is very similar to Kyle XY, infact I’d be willing to bet the the writers of Kyle XY have read this book at some point in their life time.

In an attempt to avoid possible spoilers, I’ll just say both characters exhibit abilities

beyond normal humans, but it’s clear in both cases we (normal humans) are not living up to our potential. Some of the those abilities both Kyle and Michael even share. They both struggle with adjusting to human society and offer a critique of it. They are even the same approximate age!

Right now I’m a huge fan of both so if you’ve never heard of the book, give it a try. If you enjoyed the book, I recommend you give the first season of Kyle XY a shot.

UPDATE: About an hour after reading this I found out Kyle XY was cancelled. Boo. That blows, and just a note to ABC Family, it was the only show I watched on your network, and one of the few that I watched live instead of on the DVR. I think you made a mistake.

Well now, I think this post holds a little more value, Kyle XY fans, go pick up this book, at least you’ll be able to enjoy that.

UPDATE #2: After finishing this book, I’m not sure Kyle XY fans will like it. It was written in the 1960’s and gets pretty “hippy” on you towards the end. The dialogue tends to drag on. It is like Kyle XY in the sense where Kyle and Michael Smith were the interesting parts of the story but it gets so far off track with the other characters that you can lose interest.