And yet, they both still read like advocacy.) (BTW, as others have noted, he regarded both Stranger In A Strange Land and Starship Troopers as "thought experiments," not advocacy. Originally, he wrote it as a juvenile, but his editor at Simon & Schuster rejected it and he never wrote another juvenile for them (or anyone else) ever again. It pissed him off enough that he published a counterblast in his home newspaper and formed a group to advocate in favor of continued testing.Īnd then he stopped working on Stranger and wrote Starship Troopers. He saw a paid ad advocating a unilateral US ban on nuclear testing. Heinlein had been working on Stranger In A Strange Land. It's that first question that requires the long answer. Now, putting aside the observation that all science fiction since Heinlein is either imitation of Heinlein or reaction to Heinlein, let's simply talk about three things: Starship Troopers is the single most misunderstood book in the entire SF genre.
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