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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if Heinlein genuinely thought it would be rad. He did play around with a lot of ideas in his books. Stranger in a Strange Land is totally different and full on hippie communism or whatever you'd call it, which is in a bit of a contrast to Starship Troopers. And then there's the Finnish matriarchy in one of the books. Of course another explanation was that he just radically changed his minds but I dunno.

Interesting stuff, nevertheless and IMO really good book if you like military scifi.