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Recommending Starship Troopers Robert Heinlein manages to both invent Robotech and extol the virtues of hybrid facist-democracy in the same book published in 1959. Read about smart bombs and flamethrowers from supersonic powerarmor just pages away from cognizant arguments for selective franchise and corporal punishment. This book is about the ethical responsibilities of the soldier, the citizen, the student and the mentor. It can pace slowly at times and is littered with multiple page-spanning author's diatribes, but ultimately was a forward-thinking book that is both smart and entertaining to read. Heinlein was an American treasure whose works argue a number of (likely competing) political view points bouncing between conservative and liberal viewpoints. He served as a naval officer in the 30s until he was discharged for tuberculosis after five years. Considered one of the 'big three' science fiction authors alongside Issac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, his works promote more than anything, the values and importance free-thinking of individualism.
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