Comments on: Why Starship Troopers Is the New Art of War https://www.isegoria.net/2015/02/why-starship-troopers-is-the-new-art-of-war/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:48:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Adar https://www.isegoria.net/2015/02/why-starship-troopers-is-the-new-art-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-2127341 Adar Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:25:11 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37356#comment-2127341 Heinlein was a grad of Annapolis and early in his life a career military man.

He also worked at the Philadelphia Naval Yard during WW2 with Isaac Asimov and L. Sprague De Camp. Some sort of experimentation they describe as appropriate for naval aircraft. The Philadelphia Experiment more likely!

]]> By: A Boy and His Dog https://www.isegoria.net/2015/02/why-starship-troopers-is-the-new-art-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-2125268 A Boy and His Dog Thu, 05 Feb 2015 23:43:53 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37356#comment-2125268 This was the first fiction book I read for pleasure back in fifth grade. (Before that I’d been obsessed with nonfiction about knights and medieval warfare.) Last year I picked it up again to see if I’d love it as much as I did in grade school but found the long chunks of exposition to be intolerable, no matter how true. Also some ideas in the book were ridiculous, like women making better starship pilots because of improved spatial awareness.

Slightly off-topic, but I found this quote the other day and feel it’s appropriate:

“Men are clearly wired for [war],” he continues. “The male response to war is an evolutionary adaptation that clearly works for our species.”

]]> By: J.S. https://www.isegoria.net/2015/02/why-starship-troopers-is-the-new-art-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-2125093 J.S. Thu, 05 Feb 2015 21:03:12 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37356#comment-2125093 The new edition cover reminds me of those Vox Day books where they plaster a random sci-fi image of a ship.

]]> By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2015/02/why-starship-troopers-is-the-new-art-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-2124889 Isegoria Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:00:02 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37356#comment-2124889 The paperback edition I got many, many years ago featured a reasonable cover.


]]> By: Scipio Americanus https://www.isegoria.net/2015/02/why-starship-troopers-is-the-new-art-of-war/comment-page-1/#comment-2124868 Scipio Americanus Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:49:42 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37356#comment-2124868 I see that edition continues the proud SF publishing tradition of the cover illustration looking nothing like anything in the book.

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