Why did I love this book?
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, is a classic, and the book that caused me to fall in love with the military science fiction sub-genre as a kid. As far as I am concerned, Starship Troopers was the first true military science fiction novel, and paved the way for all the authors who followed including me.
11 authors picked Starship Troopers as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
'The historians can't seem to settle whether to call this one 'The Third Space War' (or the fourth), or whether 'The First Interstellar War' fits it better. We just call it 'The Bug War'. Everything up to then and still later were 'incidents', 'patrols' or 'police actions'. However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an 'incident' as you are if you buy it in a declared war.'
5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an…