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The latter wrote an essay entitled "Starship Stormtroopers" in which he attacked Heinlein and other writers over similar "Utopian fiction.
However, this issue is still controversial, even among the book's defenders. James Gifford [40] points to several quotes as indications that the characters assume Federal Service is military; for instance, when Rico tells his father he is interested in Federal Service, his father immediately explains his belief that Federal Service is a bad idea because there is no war in progress, indicating that he sees Federal Service as military in nature, or not necessary to a businessman during peacetime.
Some Federal Service recruiters wear military ribbons, and a term of service "is either real military service Flatly so. The supposedly racist aspects of Starship Troopers involve the Terrans' relations with the Bugs and the Skinnies. Some people are also uncomfortable with the idea of an interspecies war, viewing it as similar to a race war. Richard Geib has suggested that Heinlein portrayed the individual Arachnids as lacking "minds or souls Robert A. Lowndes argues that the war between the Terrans and the Arachnids is not about a quest for racial purity, but rather an extension of Heinlein's belief that man is a wild animal.
According to this theory, if man lacks a moral compass beyond the will to survive, and he was confronted by another species with a similar lack of morality, then the only possible result would be warfare. Starship Troopers influenced many later science fiction stories, setting a tone for the military in space, a type of story referred to as military science fiction.
John Steakley 's novel Armor was, according to the author, born out of frustration with the small amount of actual combat in Starship Troopers and because he wanted this aspect developed further.
Template:Dead link [42] Conversely, Joe Haldeman 's anti-war novel The Forever War is popularly thought to be a direct reply to Starship Troopers , and though Haldeman has stated that it is actually a result of his personal experiences in the Vietnam War , he has admitted to being influenced by Starship Troopers. Card has flatly denied this, saying that he never read the novel and did not read The Forever War until after writing Ender's Game.
The James Cameron film Aliens incorporated themes and phrases from the novel, such as the terms "the drop" and "bug hunt", as well as the cargo-loader exoskeleton. The actors playing the Colonial Marines were also required to read Starship Troopers as part of their preparation prior to filming.
The film rights to the novel were licensed in the s. The film diverged greatly in terms of the themes and plot of the novel, and received mixed reviews from critics. An animated series, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles , which took inspiration from both the novel and the first film, was started in and lasted for 37 episodes.
In , Avalon Hill published Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers , a map-and-counter board wargame featuring a number of scenarios as written in the novel. The game, in which players battled each other in overhead space combat, allowed players to assume either Klendathu or Federation roles.
It was developed by Strangelite and published by Empire Interactive. Starship Troopers is also thought to have influenced numerous computer games including Tribes , Tribes 2 , [56] and StarCraft.
In , Markosia began publishing the comics Starship Troopers: Ongoing Series , using, and expanding on, the background from the Mongoose Publishing wargame. Starship Troopers Wiki Explore. Film series. TV Series. San Francisco McHenry Outpost. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Starship Troopers novel.
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