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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Starship Troopers
Message-ID: <457@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-May-85 19:09:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 19:09:58 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 23-May-85 01:02:18 EDT
References: <147@yetti.UUCP> <1331@reed.UUCP> <168@hyper.UUCP> <701@ncoast.UUCP> <1520@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <1520@reed.UUCP> wab@reed.UUCP (William Baker) writes:
>
>> What is it everyone sees wrong with STARSHIP TROOPERS?
>> 
>
>	The main problem with Starship Troopers is that it
>glorifies war.  John Rico, the main character, spends most of the
>book watching his buddies get blown away, all the while moralizing
>to himself on the necessity of war.  In the future of Starship
>Troopers, the planetary government consists exclusively of veterans
>and only veterans can vote.  The overall theme is that people who
>do not wish to serve in the military are social parasites.
....
>	However, even this premise can be turned on its head.  The
>most obvious example of this is Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War".
>Haldeman takes Heinlein's premise and some of his plot and turns
>the values around.  It is exactly what one would expect from
>someone who read Heinlein avidly but also served in Vietnam
>(Haldeman).  Great stuff.

	Another book which turns the idea on its head, and which
is even closer to Starship Troopers in plot structure &c is
"Naked to the Stars" by (I think) Phillip K Dick.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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