Starship Troopers

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Call Number: Science Fiction / Heinlein, Robert, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / Classic / Heinlein, Robert
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Originally published: New York, Putnam, 1959.
With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.

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Almost entirely unrelated to the movie. submitted by eknapp on November 9, 2011, 2:59pm Starship Troopers is about a future interstellar war between humanity and an alien race called the Bugs.

There's actually not much of a plot. The storyline is just a skeletal framework on which Heinlein builds his future society. He expounds endlessly on systems of government, "moral development", and military tactics and technology. It was actually pretty interesting.

Dated language was a little distracting from time to time, but overall it was quite a good read.

a classic of hard sci fi submitted by hathaway1066 on July 14, 2014, 6:29pm This was handed to me by a friend who had read further in the realm of classic/hard sci fi along with Joe Haldeman's 'Forever War'. Sharing books that way is definitely a 'pay it forward' deal so now I'm forwarding to all who read this and don't know of those two being worthy and contrasting with each other in a yin/yang manner that helps to define each.

You could do a LOT worse than to invest your brain's waking time in reading this--but do yourself a further favor and read 'Forever War' as well.

As stated above though, this book is quite different from the movie in tone and in some of the specifics of Heinlein's imaginings about future warfare in space/with aliens. That his ideas have been incorporated by others to the point that they're no longer as fresh shows their solid story-telling and real science vailidity.

Classic hard science fiction story submitted by scheng76 on August 17, 2018, 8:46pm This is a classic of the genre - a first-person narrative of a war set in an unspecified future (in which faster than light travel puts humanity into an ongoing war with insect-like aliens. It largely represents a Heilein's view of a future society in which rights are universal except the right to vote and stand for election to government posts is restricted to those who have completed a term of government service. The story follows the main character as he grows from a young man to a junior soldier then to higher rank as the war progresses.

As a side note: this is nothing like the feature film(s) of the same name, although those films did incorporate some of the moral and political philosophy of Heinlein's novel.