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Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

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Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein is a controversial science fiction that received a Hugo Award in 1960 and is the only science fiction novel on the reading lists of all four United States military academies , as well as the official...


Author Biography

Name: Robert A(nson) Heinlein
Variant Name: Robert A(nson) Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein, Anson MacDonald, Lyle Monroe, John Riverside, Caleb Saunders, Simon York, Robert (Anson) Heinlein
Birth Date: July 7, 1907
Death Date: May 8, 1988
Place of Birth: Butler, Missouri
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Robert A(nson) Heinlein
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Robert Anson Heinlein was born in Butler, Missouri, a small town some sixty-five miles south of Kansas City. He and his six brothers and sisters were raised in Kansas City, where he attended grade school and high school, graudating from Central High in 1...


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Starship Troopers Information
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Starship Troopers is a 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 1959. The...


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Video Store
STARSHIP TROOPERS.(Brief Article)
03/29/1998: 343 words, approx. 1 pages
Columbia TriStar Home Video Prebook April 7; Street May 19 'R,' 130 min., NA, CC Box Office: $54.6 million PPV Window: 50 days THIS testosterone-charged sci-fi war movie opened at No. 1 in theaters and generated some attention for its spectacular special effects....
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Proceso
Invasión.(TT: Starship Troopers)
02/08/1998: 635 words, approx. 2 pages
El holandés Paul Verhoeven es un caso complejo de transplante de un cineasta europeo en la tierra de promisión americana. Partiendo de una obra ya consolidada en su natal Holanda, provocativa y violenta, como las inolvidables Delicias Turcas (1973) o El Cuarto Hombre (1982),...
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The New York Observer
Total Recall
4/19/2007: 648 words, approx. 2 pages
Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, from a screenplay by Gerard Soetman and Mr. Verhoeven, based on a story by Mr. Soetman, happens to be Mr. Verhoeven’s first film in six years. Happily, it was well worth the wait as it pushes all sorts of envelopes—political, historical...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Dennis E. Showalter
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In 1959, Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers won the Hugo award as the year's best science fiction novel. Critics and reviewers have been apologizing for that fact ever since. Even admirers of Heinlein as a logician and story-teller condemn Starship Troopers as a "militaristic polemic" glorifying a violent, proto-fascist ethic, creating a polarized society in which heroic war veterans rule over "draftdodgers, effeminate snobs, pacifists, and other animals of low standing.&...
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Essay Grade: 88%
Starship Troopers
1,403 words, approx. 5 pages
It is basically a compare and contrast paper dealing with the government in Starship Troopers and ours, also talks about the freedoms we share and how we do nothing to get them and how you have to complete two years of millitary service in order to recieve citizenship in the novel "Starship Troopers."
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Essay Grade: 83%
Woman's Contribution In Starship Troopers
742 words, approx. 3 pages
In Heinlien's controversial novel Starship Troopers women play a significant role in everyday life.


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