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Robert Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers in 1959. Part of it, the action part, is a story about power armor and how it affects military tactics. Part of the story is about who should govern our society -- should everyone have an equal say, or should those who sacrifice for the community have more of a say?
The action part of this story is well told. We have an initial assault described in the first chapter, then we flashback to when our protagonist, Johnnie, first decides to join the military, over the objections of his mother and father, and follow him through basic training. Then we go through another, more difficult, assault that becomes a decisive battle in the war. All of these are well told. I read this as a youngster and gobbled it all up.
While the action is being told, Heinlein is also telling us a philosophy of who should run a society, and this is where the controversy about the book emerged. He guides us through Johnny's thinking as it grows from a boy's into a hardened man's. And Heinlein's assertion is that those who are willing to take responsibility for a society should be those who govern the society -- those who vote for its leaders. Many critics took this to be a fascist stance. I didn't, and I didn't in large part because of how different fighting power armor, as described by Heinlein, is from fighting with just a gun and guts... as described in the 1997 movie version. They are quite different.
In the book version fighting is a head's up affair and one where the soldier is taught to think and have a lot of initiative. In the movie version fighting is a be brave and put your ass on the line with your fellow troopers affair. The thinking that will evolve in these two environments will be quite different... and the movie version will be fascist.
So, the book and the movie are quite different, and I really like the book and I think the movie version missed the book's point entirely -- so much so that I was inspired to write my own version of the power armor story.
Roger Bourke White Jr. has been around. He was a soldier in Vietnam in the '60's, an engineering student at MIT in '70's, a computer networking pioneer in the '80's, and a teacher in Korea in the '90's. He loves writing science fiction and has many works posted at White World.
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