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Originally Posted by Aulirophile  How no one has mentioned Heinlein yet is beyond me, unless people are just assuming anyone asking about Sci-Fi has read all of him. Spider Robinson comes to mind to. |
Starship Troopers is one of his better books. It's vastly different than the garbage that made it into the movies. The book is a lot more about what human culture would be like under a quasi-facist/socialist world government and examines social issues like suffrage. Combine those themes with a decent story and some surprisingly futuristic stuff (considering the book was written in 1959) and it's a great quick read. Interestingly, it's the only Sci Fi book on the Marine Corps. reading list and the tactics and weapons in the book are pretty meticulously detailed. The military is still chasing some of the concepts first outlined in this book (powered exo-skeletons) almost 50 years after it was written.