- Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, Science fiction, Space warfare
Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the Terran Federation of Earth and the Arachnids (referred to as "The Bugs") of Klendathu. It is narrated as a series of flashbacks by Juan Rico, and is one of only a few Heinlein novels set out in this fashion.
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Earnest, cool, grave and epic.
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- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Robert A. Heinlein
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 233
- Publisher
- Berkley, NEL Books, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780425055069
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Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science
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