Starship Troopers (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Heinlein
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Extraterrestrial life, Future, Other worlds, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, War, Soldiers, Earth
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
In addition to winning for Heinlein his first Hugo award, Starship Troopers put an end to the Scribner's juvenile series. Heinlein wrote it for the series, but Scribner's rejected it. That rejection was the beginning of years of controversy over Starship Troopers.
Many readers, and a majority of academic critics, objected to the overt militarism of the book. Despite the Hugo, science-fiction fans at conventions in 1960 distanced themselves from the book's philosophy; a youth-oriented radio talk show on WMCA in New York even devoted its October 23, 1960, broadcast...
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