Starship Troopers: intriguing, yet blunt

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Rating 

★★★


Summary

On Heinlein’s future Earth, only military service entitles one to Citizenship and voting privileges. We follow a high school student as he joins the Army because of a girl, but soon comes to treasure his role, as the planet becomes embroiled in an interplanetary war… with Bugs.


Review

Rumour (or truth) has it that Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein is on the recommended reading list of the US Air Force.

It becomes almost immediately clearly why.

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