Starship Troopers

263 pages

English language

Published April 24, 1987

ISBN:
978-0-7857-8728-0
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4 stars (33 reviews)

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 in December 1959. The story is set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government dominated by a military elite, referred to as the Terran Federation. The first-person narrative follows Juan "Johnny" Rico through his military service in the Mobile Infantry. Rico progresses from recruit to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between humans and an alien species known as "Arachnids" or "Bugs". Interspersed with the primary plot are classroom scenes in which Rico and others discuss philosophical and moral issues, including aspects of suffrage, civic virtue, juvenile delinquency, …

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5 stars

I'd read Starship Troopers decades ago and it was, of course, good. The book's biggest problem is that Heinlein presents morals and moral challenges as a mathematical science, and, of course, morals are all relative. It would be nice if morals and behavior was a science, certainly.

This was also my first audiobook, and that worked out better than I thought.

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4 stars

Donc, ce livre raconte la vie d’un jeune soldat des étoiles, qui va se battre, et dévaster les adversaires de l’humanité, pied à pied, comme il se doit pour un fantassin (ce qui est son honneur et sa fierté). Sous la vibrante histoire du jeune militaire qui gravit, pied à pied, les étapes de la vie du soldat, on ressent toutefois comme l’ombre d’une angoisse, une espèce de message qui transparait dans les cours de philosophie et de morale qu’il suit tout au long de sa vie. Serait-ce le fantôme d’une critique de la société moderne, qui se cache dans la dénonciation d’un antique vingtième siècle tout pourri ? N’y aurait-il pas, dans ses discussions avec ses instructeurs, un début de dénonciation de l’armée telle qu’elle existe, de son rôle et de ses attributions ? Ce questions restent posées tout au long du roman et, c’est sa force, même après, …

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