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[Ruin Explorer]

I am not sure we disagree. I would see the militarist future as part of the books tone and text

We don't, I was clarifying that it wasn't just tonal, it's explicit in the text, because you seemed to be uncertain if you remembered correctly.

 

[Bedrockgames]

We don't, I was clarifying that it wasn't just tonal, it's explicit in the text, because you seemed to be uncertain if you remembered correctly.

I was just using vague language

 

[Cadence]

Dog Man's genre is body horror.

 

[MarkB]

It was removed around 2010

Hopefully replaced with putting the movie on their viewing list.

 

[Ryujin]

This is further confirmed, note, by the fact that later on, Heinlein devoted part of an entire other book (on his work, I forget the title) to backfill and retcon on Starship Troopers, absolutely none of which was needed if your thesis about "just asking questions" was true, but which is exactly what you'd do if you believed the political ideology in said book had merit and needed to be protected.

If you mean "Space Cadet", which is the only similar story that immediately comes to mind, then it came about a decade before "Starship Troopers."

 

[Ruin Explorer]

If you mean "Space Cadet", which is the only similar story that immediately comes to mind, then it came about a decade before "Starship Troopers."

No I forget the name of the book, it's much later from his libertarian bang-your-grand-daughter SF period, or even later than that, and it's explicitly about the books he wrote, not a short story with a similar setting. Last time I tried looking it up I couldn't find it lol which is why I don't casually provide a title. Please don't make me go dig for it!

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Dog Man's genre is body horror.

I read a summary of this movie and bloody hell, it sure sounded like body horror, and not just on Dog man's origin.

But 100% it sounds like something I'd have loved when I was like 7 though I would have sided with the terrorist cat.

 

[Ryujin]

No I forget the name of the book, it's much later from his libertarian bang-your-grand-daughter SF period, or even later than that, and it's explicitly about the books he wrote, not a short story with a similar setting. Last time I tried looking it up I couldn't find it lol which is why I don't casually provide a title. Please don't make me go dig for it!

This one? I've never read it.

Grumbles from the Grave - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ruin Explorer]

This one? I've never read it.

Grumbles from the Grave - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think it might be Expanded Universe, but I'd have to re-read it to be sure.

 

[Thomas Shey]

It's not just tone, it's text. And the society described can literally only function in a 40K-style "In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war"-style situation, because he has an insanely massive and by the book's own admission, "make work" military.

That's because its military also serves as civil-service, and the "make work" part is because everyone is permitted to enlist, and some people are incapable of filling any actual useful role.

Basically to compare to the "military" in ST you have to look at essentially everyone in the modern world who is directly employed by the government, not just the parts we call military (though if you're looking at the U.S. the ratios are probably not that far off) since we have an oversized military even relative to our size).