Starship troopers (thread split from "We need heroes!!"

[Entropy]

I think somone has been reading and/or watching Starship Troppers just a lil too much. 

[Serious Sam]

I think somone has been reading and/or watching Starship Troppers just a lil too much.

Just saw it today for the first time aftr being convinced by a mate. I loved the recruitment slogans so much that i just had to use them. As for you little scavengers, you will pay. 

Guys this is a recruitment thread so please keep non- recruitment posts to a minimum.

Thanks.

[KingBiscuit]

I think somone has been reading and/or watching Starship Troppers just a lil too much. 

Uh I think that's impossible because no amount of Starship Troopers that is 'too much.'

I speak of the movie, Heinlein can eat it.

[lama]

As far as I like Heinlein's books, red-head girl from the first part doesn't make me want to read them at all

[FirstAmongstDaves]

Heinlein's books fall into two categories:

1. boys' adventure tales, with some kid in a space suit becoming an adult saving the universe in some manner or another. These are rites of adolescence set in space and often with a military theme to them (as you'd expect from a writer who was frustrated in his naval career by a bout of tuberculosis). Space Family Stone, Podkayne of Mars, Starship Troopers, Space Cadet, and many others (Heinlein was a prolific writer) fall into this category. One of the books even has three teens an an elderly mentor fight Nazis on the moon (can't remeber the name of the story) which is about as teenaged Manichean as you get.

2. adult themed sci-fi, rarely with explicit sex but heavy adult overtones. Beyond this Horizon (eugenics), Glory Road (promiscuous sex),The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (incest), "The Number of the Beast" (bisexuality), I Will Fear No Evil (homosexuality and promiscuous sex), Friday (homosexuality, eugenics, and promiscuous sex), and many others fall into this category. The Future History continuity established over a number of books (detailing mankind's colonisation of the solar system and later other stars) tends to fall into this category rather than the other.

The book which won all the awards and made Heinlein famous was Stranger in a Strange Land, which with  Jesus-esque overtones  introduced into popular 1960s culture the word "GROK".

Heinlein also predicted the internet in his early 1980s book, Friday.

[Myri]

The Number of the Beast" (bisexuality)

...Because bisexuality is totally an 'adults only' topic .

I loved The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and The Green Hills of Earth collection, but couldn't get into any of the other books of his I've tried reading (Friday, Revolt in 2100, The Man Who Sold the Moon).