Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
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“@Sherlock_Homie_ Starship Troopers is a great novel. Lousy movie that was done as camp, but the book is really different and much better. | @theBrianBurgess I have not read anything by John Steakley. I have read Robert Heinlein's book STARSHIP TROOPERS which is the book the movie is based upon. I recommend that one to you and, if you like futurewar stories, FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman is one of the best. | OMW directly influenced by: Starship Troopers, book AND film; HalfLife; Dan Simmons' Hyperion series; and rather quite a few films with snappy dialogue and a threeact structure BUT SPECIFICALLY Nora Ephron's bits in Sleepless in Seattle where Sam talks about missing his wife.”
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Military, Space Opera, and Most Recommended Books.
The historians cant 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...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Military, Space Opera, and Most Recommended Books.
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“@Sherlock_Homie_ Starship Troopers is a great novel. Lousy movie that was done as camp, but the book is really different and much better. | @theBrianBurgess I have not read anything by John Steakley. I have read Robert Heinlein's book STARSHIP TROOPERS which is the book the movie is based upon. I recommend that one to you and, if you like futurewar stories, FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman is one of the best. | OMW directly influenced by: Starship Troopers, book AND film; HalfLife; Dan Simmons' Hyperion series; and rather quite a few films with snappy dialogue and a threeact structure BUT SPECIFICALLY Nora Ephron's bits in Sleepless in Seattle where Sam talks about missing his wife.”
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