Starship Troopers and US Elections
Robert Heinlein wrote the controversial Starship Troopers in 1959 at the height of the Cold War. The novel’s action centers around a war of survival between mankind and an extraterrestrial bug-like species bent on galactic conquest. What set this novel apart from other Sci-Fi genre novels was the underlying moral and political lessons Heinlein was teaching. These lessons are as fresh today as they were when we faced the threat of nuclear annihilation. And like much of Science Fiction, Starship Troopers is a cautiously optimistic novel. The central theme of Starship Troopers was what it meant to be...
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