XII), instead of, as Heinlein would later note, anyone '.who is 18 years old and has a body temperature near 37 ☌' 21 The Federation is required to find a place for anyone who desires to serve, regardless of his skill or aptitude (this also includes service ranging from teaching to dangerous non-military work such as serving as experimental medical test subjects to military service-such as Rico's Mobile Infantry). Can only be earned by those willing to serve their society by at least two years of volunteer Federal Service – 'the franchise is today limited to discharged veterans', (ch. Heinlein's Terran Federation is a limited democracy, with aspects of a in regard to full citizenship, based on voluntarily assuming a responsibility for the common good.
20 The overall theme of the book is that social responsibility requires being prepared to make individual sacrifice. Large portions of the book take place in classrooms, with Rico and other characters engaged in debates with their History and Moral Philosophy teacher, who is often thought 20 to be speaking in Heinlein's voice. Starship Troopers seems to have been meant as a political essay as well as a novel. Cover of (November 1959), illustrating Starship Soldier Starship Troopers takes place in the midst of an interstellar war between the of Earth and the (referred to as 'The Bugs') of. 13 A senior editor at Putnam's, Peter Israel, purchased the novel and approved revisions that made it more marketable to adults, and dodged the issue of whether it was aimed at children or adults: 'Let's let the readers decide who likes it,' he said at a sales conference. 12 The novel was eventually published as teenage fiction. Although originally written as a for New York publishing house, it was rejected, 11 prompting Heinlein to cease writing juvenile fiction for Scribners, to end his association with that publisher completely, and resume writing books with adult themes.
It was first published in in October and November 1959 as a called Starship Soldier. 10 Writing of the novel Some time during 19, Heinlein ceased work on the novel that would become and wrote Starship Troopers. Heinlein used the novel to clarify and defend his military and political views at the time.
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