Robert A. Heinlein
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 4.01 | 180315 Users | 5265 Reviews
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| Title | : | Starship Troopers |
| Author | : | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 1987 by Ace Book (first published December 1959) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Classics |
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The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth), or whether "The First Interstellar War" fits it better. We just call it “The Bug War." Everything up to then and still later were "incidents," "patrols," or "police actions." However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as you are if you buy it in a declared war... In one of Robert A. Heinlein’s most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind’s most alarming enemy.Be Specific About Books Conducive To Starship Troopers
| Original Title: | Starship Troopers |
| ISBN: | 0441783589 (ISBN13: 9780441783588) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Juan Rico |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award for Best Novel (1960) |
Rating Of Books Starship Troopers
Ratings: 4.01 From 180315 Users | 5265 ReviewsEvaluation Of Books Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers, Robert A. HeinleinStarship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by U.S. 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, and published as a book by G. P. Putnam's Sons in December 1959. The story is set in a future society ruled by a world government dominated by a military elite. The first-personWhere do I even begin? For starters, I should let the reader know that I'm not basing my score on the politics of the book (as laughable as I think they are) but on the plot of the book, or rather the complete lack of a plot in the book. While things do happen, some of them pretty big, Mr. Heinlein has seen fit that we should not be party to any of those things. Instead, he saves the most loving descriptions for daily life at boot camp. Seventy, yes seventy, pages of a two hundred-odd page book
I started reading sci-fi quite intensively in the 80s (as if my life depended on it) and if you had asked me at the time who my favorite of the Big Three of Science Fiction is I would have said Robert A. Heinlein. He was, I thought, the funniest, the liveliest, the least dry, and basically the most badass of the Three. In recent years have been re-reading a lot of classic sci-fi and my answer today would be different. I would place Isaac Asimov first then Arthur C. Clarke and Heinlein would be
A great work of science fiction.This is not at all about action, and fighting bugs, it is a study of a mans compulsion to fight and or serve his country, and a discussion about our societys, and any societys responsibility to its citizens and what is best for society. Like many Heinlein novels, it works well on many levels, the surface science fiction, and then the deeper, more complicated voice of the storyteller, speaking from his own experience.This is a controversial book. Criticized for
The first book that I read by Robert Heinlein turned out to be a surprise in more than one way. I picked it because it seemed to be the short and fun story among them, and saved his other famous works for later.The problem with many classics is that they are painfully tedious. The problem with many science fiction novels is that they are mindless entertainment in space. Starship Troopers is neither of these things. It is way more entertaining than the average classic and way smarter than the
This is a classic military SF, straightforward at the first sight but much deeper in one really after the depth. The book isnt for everyone: Heinlein liked to provoke and this book is no exception. Here one finds an approval of physical punishments, even a capital punishment; assault of military on civilians. There are reviewers, who call is fascist, but actually it is an opposite. Just show me another SF from the fifties, where: women have equal rights to serve in military, there is a score of
My first impulse is to dismiss it as an appalling piece of militaristic propaganda, whose one saving grace is that it's at least much better than the movie. But that wouldn't be doing the book justice. With all its faults, I simply loved it as a 14 year old, and I'm in no way alone there. Why is it so fascinating?Let me start by dismissing a couple of possible theories. One reviewer wonders if it's deadpan satire. I suppose, when you see some of Heinlein's later books (Stranger in a Strange Land
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