Starship Troopers

by Robert A. Heinlein · first published 1959

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. P. Putnam's Sons on November 5, 1959. The story is set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government called the Terran Federation, dominated by a military elite. Under the Terran Federation, only veterans of a primarily military Federal Service enjoy full citizenship, including the right to vote.

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Genre:

Philosophical fiction, Military science fiction

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.8 / 5 (62 on Open Library)

Year page:

1959