Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. P. Putnam's Sons in December 1959. The story is set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government dominated by a military elite, referred to as the Terran Federation. The first-person narrative follows Juan "Johnny" Rico through his military service in the Mobile Infantry. Rico progresses from recruit to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between humans and an alien species known as "Arachnids" or "Bugs".
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Paul Verhoeven film about a distant future where humans battle against giant alien bugs. It earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.
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The film was followed by several sequels starting with 2004's Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation. There was also a TV series that aired in 1999 entitled Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles.
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Starship Troopers (franchise) - Starship Troopers is an American military science fiction media franchise based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein and the satirical 1997 film adaptation by screenwriter Edward Neumeier and director Paul Verhoeven.. Novels by Robert A. Heinlein.. Hugo Award for Best Novel-winning works.. Military science fiction novels.. Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.. Novels set on fictional planets.. G. P. Putnam's Sons books.
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