Starship troopers (1959)

A novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Thursday July 2nd

6pm to 7pm

1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel

Set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government called the Terran Federation, dominated by a military elite, only veterans of a primarily military Federal Service enjoy full citizenship, including the right to vote.

Starship Troopers is a classic novel by one of science fictions greatest writers of all time and is now a Tri-Star movie. In one of Heinlein's most controversial bestsellers, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against mankind's most frightening enemy.

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Robert Heinlein was an American novelist and the grand master of science fiction in the twentieth century. Often called 'the dean of science fiction writers', he is one of the most popular, influential and controversial authors of 'hard science fiction'.

Over the course of his long career he won numerous awards and wrote 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections, many of which have cemented their place in history as science fiction classics, including STARSHIP TROOPERS, THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS and the beloved STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND.