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Heinlein's Starship Troopers is an early example, along with the Dorsai novels of Gordon Dickson.
* Savate was mentioned in Robert Heinlein's book Starship Troopers.
Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers ( 1959 ) is another pivotal early work of military SF, along with Gordon Dickson's Dorsai ( 1960 ), and these are thought to be mostly responsible for spreading this sub-genre's popularity among young readers of the time.
It has also been considered to be a critical response to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, a book with a similar setting, often considered pro-military.
Despite the name, alien Kafer ( bugs ) are not similar to the Bugs of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
One of the most famous early versions was Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 novel Starship Troopers, which can be seen as spawning the entire sub-genre concept of military " powered armor ," which would be further developed in Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.
* Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, October, November 1959, serialized as " Starship Soldier ".
The Terran Federation is the fictional government of Earth and her space colonies in Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 science fiction novel Starship Troopers.
The term was commonly used by United States soldiers during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, although veterans recall its usage as early as the 1950s ; this is attested by Robert Heinlein's use of the term in his 1959 novel Starship Troopers.
Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers is perhaps one of the best-known and earliest explorations of the " space marine " idea.
A survey squadron travels through a previously uncharted warp point and encounters a hive-like species referred to derisively as the ' Bugs ' ( inspired by the Arachnids in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers ).
The Mobile Infantry ( MI ) is a fictional military force in Robert A. Heinlein's novel Starship Troopers and in the movies Starship Troopers, released in 1997, the 2004 sequel, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, the 2008 film Starship Troopers 3: Marauder and the TV series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles.
Aubrey Cosens was mentioned in Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers, albeit misspelled.
It has some superficial similarities with Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers ( such as the military use of exoskeletons and insect-like alien enemies ) but concentrates more on the psychological effects of violence on human beings rather than on the political aspects of the military, which was the focus of Heinlein's novel.
Their name is a reference to Rico's Roughnecks from Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
It should not be confused with the Terran Federation of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers, although there are some notable similarities.
The series also shares a number of stylistic similarities to Heinlein's Starship Troopers, with substantial didactic portions akin to Starship Troopers ' " History and Moral Philosophy " coursework discussions between the central character and a school mentor.

Heinlein's and 1959
It was reprinted in Heinlein's 1959 collection, The Menace From Earth and in several subsequent anthologies, and is now available in at least two audio editions.
It also lends its title to a collection of Heinlein's short stories published in 1959.
The contents of the book are exactly two previous collections of Heinlein's short stories: Waldo & Magic, Inc. ( 1950 ) and The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag ( 1959 ), here arranged chronologically in order of publication:

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* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.
In Heinlein's view, grokking is the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed.
Bujold is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record.
It appeared already in Heinlein's Red Planet and is a major plot element in Greg Bear's Moving Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and S. C. Sykes ' books.
* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.
Heinlein's archive is housed by the Special Collections department of McHenry Library at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Critics William H. Patterson, Jr., and Andrew Thornton believe that this is simply an expression of Heinlein's longstanding philosophical opposition to positivism.
The penultimate novel of this period, I Will Fear No Evil, is according to critic James Gifford " almost universally regarded as a literary failure " and he attributes its shortcomings to Heinlein's near-death from peritonitis.
The tendency toward authorial self-reference begun in Stranger in a Strange Land and Time Enough for Love becomes even more evident in novels such as The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, whose first-person protagonist is a disabled military veteran who becomes a writer, and finds love with a female character who, like many of Heinlein's strong female characters, appears to be based closely on his wife Ginny.
A complete collection of Heinlein's published work, conformed and copy-edited by several Heinlein scholars including biographer William H. Patterson is being published by the Heinlein Trust as the " Virginia Edition ", after his wife.
Robert A. Heinlein's book The Door into Summer is repeatedly mentioned in King's Wolves of the Calla.
A more complete discussion of race in Heinlein's fiction is given in the main article on Heinlein.
This novel is Heinlein's only foray into the " alien invasion " genre within science fiction.
* Mary, born Allucquere in a religious commune on Venus, is Heinlein's classic heroine.
In the film one of the characters mumbles that Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is " a blatant rip off " of Heinlein's novel.
Eugenics is shown as the wave of the future, and yet it is a eugenics that explicitly rejects racism, and can be reconciled with Heinlein's strongly held belief in cultural relativism.
A defining quote from the book which is repeated throughout Heinlein's work is, " An armed society is a polite society ", is very popular with those who support the personal right to keep and bear arms.
The book has a strong feeling of verisimilitude because so much of it is based on Heinlein's real-life experiences.
A common criticism of Heinlein's novels commonly is that they are episodic, or have weak or rushed endings.
The later part, taking place on the planet of the " centaurs "— intelligent, horselike carnivores who dominate all other fauna on the planet including deformed human-like creatures — is evidently intended as Heinlein's commentary on and antithesis to the fourth part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Heinlein's and considered
Heinlein's first novel published as a book, Rocket Ship Galileo, was initially rejected because going to the moon was considered too far out, but he soon found a publisher, Scribner's, that began publishing a Heinlein juvenile once a year for the Christmas season.
Admirers of Heinlein were critical of the movie, which they considered a betrayal of Heinlein's philosophy, presenting the society in which the story takes place as fascist.
Widely admired for its credible presentation of a comprehensively imagined future human society on both the Earth and the moon, it is generally considered one of Heinlein's major novels as well as one of the most important science fiction novels ever written.
The concept of Tribbles was considered similar enough to the flat cats of Robert Heinlein's novel The Rolling Stones that legal permission was obtained from Heinlein.
In this, Heinlein's vision of the future could be considered a watered-down version of that in Wells's The Shape of Things to Come where determined reformers completely suppress all organized religion for the explicit purpose of gaining a complete monopoly over education.
He is considered the heir to Robert A. Heinlein's individualism and libertarianism in science fiction.
Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land contains long passages that could be considered as successors to the fictionalized philosophical dialogues of the ancient world, set within the plot.

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