Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. The story is set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government dominated by a military elite, referred to as the Terran Federation. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960, and garnered praise for its scenes of training and combat and its visualization of a future military. It became enormously controversial because of the political views it seemed to support.
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Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the U.S. suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier. The story is set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government dominated by a military elite, referred to as the Terran Federation. The novel has been credited with popularizing the idea of powered armor, which has since become a recurring feature in science fiction books and films. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960, and garnered praise for its scenes of training and combat and its visualization of a future military. It also became enormously controversial because of the political views it seemed to support. The ideology of militarism and the fact that only military veterans had the right to vote in the novel’s fictional society led to it being frequently described as fascist. Despite the controversy, Starship Troopers had wide influence both within and outside science fiction. It has been adapted several times, including in a 1997 film version directed by Paul Verhoeven that sought to satirize what the director saw as the fascist aspects of the novel. It is considered one of his best-selling books, and is considered his most widely known work. He served in the Navy for five years after graduating from the United States Naval Academy in 1929. Heinlein firmly endorsed the anti-communist sentiment of the Cold War era in his writing.
He would later say that he used the novel to clarify his political views and clarify his military and political views. Like many of Heinlein’s books, the novel was written to create an attempt to create a “Patrick Henry League” The League was created by Heinlein and his wife Virginia Henry in the late 1950s to promote the use of nuclear weapons in U. S. military operations. In the 1980s, Heinlein would say that the publication of a volume of his Expanded Universe would be the last time he would write a book about nuclear weapons. He later wrote a book called Stranger in a Strange Land about the creation of the League in the early 1980s. The book was published by Simon & Schuster in 1987. It was the first of a series of books that would become known as The Stranger in A Strange Strange Universe, a series that has since been adapted into a film and a TV series. The film version of the book was released in 1997. The movie version was released by Paramount Pictures in October 2013, and has been met with criticism for its treatment of the military and its depiction of gender and race. The first-person narrative follows Juan \”Johnny\” Rico through his military service in the Mobile Infantry. Rico progresses from recruit to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between humans and an alien species known as \”Arachnids\” or \”Bugs\”. Interspersed with the primary plot are classroom scenes in which Rico and others discuss philosophical and moral issues, including aspects of suffrage, civic virtue, juvenile delinquency, and war.
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