Starship Troopers
$29.82
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
13 December 2016
Summary
The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one ‘The Third Space War’ (or the fourth), or whether ‘The First Interstellar War’ fits it better. We just call it ‘The Bug War’. Everything up to then and still later were ‘incidents’, ‘patrols’ or ‘police actions’. However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an ‘incident’ as you are if you buy it in a declared war.
5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473217485 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473217482 |
| Author: | Robert A. Heinlein |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 December 2016 |
| Weight: | 347g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 27mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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Heinlein’s genius is at its height in this timeless classic that is as meaningful today as when it was written … a definite must-have, must-read book - SF Site
Nothing has come along that can match it - Science Fiction WeeklyHeinlein was absolutely at his peak when he wrote this in 1959 … this is military SF done extremely wellAbout The Author
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) was educated at the University of Missouri and the US Naval Academy, Annapolis. He served as a naval officer for five years but retired in 1934 due to ill health. He then studied physics at UCLA before beginning to publish sf with ‘Lifeline’ for Astounding Science Fiction in 1939. Among his many novels are Stranger in a Strange Land, The Door into Summer, Double Star, Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
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