For the life of me I don’t understand the hate this book gets. Well I didn’t notice any hate til the weirdos infested sci-fi and you started seeing awards given to women who just whine about racism or patriarchy. I liked the movie for what it was but a faithful adaptation would be amazing. But at this point I wouldn’t want Hollywood anywhere near his works.
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There's an animated series that's a little (in a relative sense) closer to the books called Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles. It still stays away from the meritocracy aspects of the book (service guarantees citizenship).
Really hate the constant background music on it, though. I wish they'd put that crap on separate audio channel so you could turn it off.
His early "golden age" scifi, yes. His later books were kind of Biden'esk creepy old man stuff, though. Banging his Mom, sister, underage daughters that were female clones of himself.
Dude definitely took a turn for the weird.
It think Stranger In A Strange Land and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress were meant more as Brave New World-like warnings about what societies with no moral grounding will eventually degenerate into.
I think it was either T2 or salvation where Cameron said how it was like a child realizing too late that it couldn't take it's actions back and was trying to groom John into the savior, but because doing so caused it to conflict with it's own survival it trapped itself in a never ending loop of assassination attempts
A cool adaptation would be Space Cadet, Podykane of Mars or Have Spacesuit Will Travel. I would’ve loved an adaptation or animated one as a kid. Heck, if done correctly it could work now