All right, I'll read Starship Troopers with you epic gamers. Some fun info that I came up with after a quick search: Heinlein won Hugo Awards for four novels (back when awards might have meant something, no less): Double Star, published in 1956, Starship Troopers (1959), Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966).
Starship Troopers is on the reading lists of four out of five of the US military academies, and was made into a film adaptation by Robocop director Paul Verhoeven in 1997. While it's said Verhoeven was satirizing the society he portrayed, Heinlein... probably wasn't. It is also most likely the original appearance of >!powered armor!< in all of literature. Looking forward to it, fellas!
All right, I'll read Starship Troopers with you epic gamers. Some fun info that I came up with after a quick search: Heinlein won Hugo Awards for four novels (back when awards might have meant something, no less): Double Star, published in 1956, Starship Troopers (1959), Stranger in a Strange Land (1961), and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966).
Starship Troopers is on the reading lists of four out of five of the US military academies, and was made into a film adaptation by Robocop director Paul Verhoeven in 1997. While it's said Verhoeven was satirizing the society he portrayed, Heinlein... probably wasn't. It is also most likely the original appearance of >!powered armor!< in all of literature. Looking forward to it, fellas!
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress should be required reading for basically everyone, but especially for military and now Space Force.
It basically justifies the existence of a Space Force by itself. Sitting at the top of Earth's gravity well is the most powerful position in humanity.
was required reading in highschool for my class. but also tripe like wuthering heights.