Although Heinlein has been adopted as somewhat of a posterboy by the libertarian movement, the political commentary reveals that Heinlein was far from being a doctrinaire adherent of any particular political philosophy.

At the time of writing, there was already a widespread expectation of a new war breaking out in Europe in the near future, and Heinlein followed this assumption.

However, through one of his characters, Heinlein seems to posit near the end of his book that a true anarcho-capitalist society is inherently unattainable, and will eventually devolve into a traditional statist society.

Podkayne appears in Heinlein's later novel The Number of the Beast, attending the party at the end along with many other Heinlein characters from previous books.

Heinlein had a cynical view of politics from his experiences on the Upton Sinclair 1934 campaign for Governor of California and his own at the receiving end of dirty tricks during Heinlein's failed 1938 election campaign for the California State Assembly.

In a letter to his literary agent, published only many years later, Heinlein wrote that revising the story was " like revising Romeo and Juliet to let the young lovers live happily ever after " and that " changing the end isn't real life, because in real life, not everything ends happily.

In the Future History, Heinlein assumed that long before the end of the 20th century an extensive human exploration and colonization would take place all over the Solar System ; the same assumption was made also in other works not fitting into the Future History's framework.

Heinlein made no explicit remark on this, but a causal connection could be made: in the Future History the bold individualistic Americans emigrated into space in the end of the Twentieth Century, and were not present in America to stop it from falling into the fanatic's hands ".

Heinlein did correctly predict that Adolf Hitler would end up committing suicide, once his schemes of conquest collapsed.

* Starship Troopers ( 1959 ) by Robert A. Heinlein

He had used topical materials throughout his series, but in 1959, his Starship Troopers was considered by the Scribner's editorial staff to be too controversial for their prestige line, and they rejected it ; Heinlein found another publisher, feeling himself released from the constraints of writing novels for children, and he began to write " my own stuff, my own way ", and he wrote a series of challenging books that redrew the boundaries of science fiction, including his best-known work, Stranger in a Strange Land ( 1961 ), and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress ( 1966 ).

Heinlein decisively ended his juvenile novels with Starship Troopers ( 1959 ), a controversial work and his personal riposte to leftists calling for President Dwight D. Eisenhower to stop nuclear testing in 1958.

It has been suggested that the strongly hierarchical and anti-individualistic " Bugs " in Starship Troopers were meant to represent the Chinese or Japanese, but Heinlein claimed to have written the book in response to " calls for the unilateral ending of nuclear testing by the United States.

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published ( in abridged form ) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( October, November 1959, as " Starship Soldier ") and published hardcover in December, 1959.

This book, along with Starship Troopers, shows Heinlein moving away from his old, comfortable territory of juvenile science fiction novels.

During a meeting of the Council of the Time Scouts, representatives from every major time line and setting written by Heinlein appear, including Glory Road and Starship Troopers ; and a reference is made to other authors ' works as well.

* Robert A. Heinlein, the Heinlein juveniles, a set of 12 books that includes Starship Troopers

Robert A. Heinlein contributed to the screenplay for Destination Moon in 1950, but none of his major works were adapted for the screen until the 1990s: The Puppet Masters in 1994 and Starship Troopers in 1997.

* Starship Troopers, a science fiction book by Robert A. Heinlein

* Starship Troopers ( film ), a film loosely based on the book by Robert A. Heinlein of the same name

Mongoose Publishing's licensed games based on the Conan the Barbarian property and the Robert A. Heinlein novel Starship Troopers, for example, use systems that function nearly identically to d20 but do not carry the d20 logo.

Whereas the characters in Starship Troopers were all volunteers, the characters in The Forever War were conscripts ( Heinlein had stated his opposition to conscription on several occasions ).

* Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Starship Troopers is a board wargame by Avalon Hill based on the novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein.

* Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

The Bugs are an extraterrestrial race in the novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, its film adaptation ( and its first and second sequels and spin-off television series ), sometimes also referred to as the Arachnids, although this is a misnomer, as the aliens are not related to Earth arachnids.

* Starship Troopers, a 1959 Heinlein book, and series of adapted movies, animations, and games

Klendathu is the fictional homeworld of the extraterrestrial race known as the Bugs ( or, sometimes, " Arachnids "), in the fictional universe of the Robert A. Heinlein novel Starship Troopers, and in the movie of the same name ( and its first and second sequels, and spin-off television series ).

* Several novels and short stories by Robert Heinlein, such as Gulf ( 1949 ), Citizen of the Galaxy ( 1957 ), Starship Troopers ( 1959 ), and Friday ( 1982 ), contain references to " sleep-learning ".

* Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Gunbuster also borrows many story elements from the Robert A. Heinlein novel Starship Troopers.

Starship Troopers is a controversial 1959 science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein.

P. Schuyler Miller, noting that the novel's " climactic situations seem to be telegraphed ", suggested that Heinlein presented his background situations so effectively that readers solve the story's mysteries more quickly than Heinlein allowed his characters to.

Scientific progress is satirized as often as it is glorified, and Heinlein displays his disdain for positivism, as his protagonist convinces the society's leaders to plow vast amounts of money into research on topics such as telepathy and the immortality of the soul.

* In the Robert Heinlein novel Farnham's Freehold, the protagonist, Hugh Farnham, is given a companion ( bedwarmer ) that is described as a natural freemartin.

* Colin Campbell, protagonist of The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, a novel by Robert A. Heinlein

* Zebadiah John Carter, a protagonist of The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein

Writing in 1957, however, Blish says that " The only first-person narrator Heinlein has created who is a living, completely independent human being is The Great Lorenzo of Double Star.

Throughout the story, Heinlein takes the view of the objective narrator when describing Venusian society.

* The novel I Will Fear No Evil ( 1970 ) by Robert A. Heinlein features an elderly wealthy man who has his brain transplanted into the body of his deceased secretary.

Farmer In The Sky is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a teenaged boy who emigrates with his family to Jupiter's moon Ganymede, which is in the process of being terraformed.

* In the Lunar society depicted by Robert Heinlein in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, a common form of family is a troika, composed of a wife, a senior husband and a junior husband.

Heinlein also makes it a point that this family is racially diverse.