Starship Troopers

by

Robert A. Heinlein

Terran Federation

The Terran Federation demonstrates the achievements available to humanity if it follows the evolutionary impulses of the survival instinct and outcompeting other species for dominance. Starship Troopers presents the Federation as a kind of utopia…

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Suits

Because of the way they protect and enhance the soldiers who wear them, the Mobile Infantry’s armored suits serve as a metaphor for the M.I. infantry itself. Soldiers make up a small part of the…

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Bugs

The Bugs’ society and government stands in opposition to the Terran Federation, representing the threat communism poses to democratic and individualistic societies. Starship Troopers was written during the Cold War, and its depiction of the…

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