Book · 2006 · Fiction
Starship Troopers
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One of my favorite books is Starship Troopers. And inside of the book Starship Troopers, they talk about citizen versus civilian.
What they say about it
- Service guarantees citizenship“service guarantees citizenship”3
- Discusses the political system“citizen versus civilian”2
The best things said about it
The book Starship Troopers is a largely pro-war exploration of militarism using a science fiction setting.
I actually really like the idea of a Civil Service Corp going back to Starship Troopers you know everybody memes on the movie but the book is serious.
In the book version of Starship Troopers service is anything meant to serve your fellow man most being government services like like mail road construction etc.
It depicts a society in which you have to put in two years of military service for the right to vote or hold office still have other basic rights though.
You can even go back to Robert Heinen's 1959 novel Starship Troopers and that was really the concept behind the mobile infantry.
Palmer Luckey The Shawn Ryan Show · Feb 2025 The accusation on the book and the movie is that it's a fascist book a movie.
Carl Benjamin Modern Wisdom · Jan 2019 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
6 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein is a classic science fiction novel exploring militarism, civic duty, and the complex philosophical distinction between citizens and civilians. The book continues to spark intense discussion among military veterans, futurists, and podcast hosts. On The Shawn Ryan Show, AJ Pasciuti recommended the novel, highlighting how it examines the vital relationship between public service and political franchise. Palmer Luckey also referenced Heinlein's 1959 ideas on the same show while discussing science fiction influences on modern military technology and exoskeletons. Meanwhile, on Behind the Bastards and The Shawn Ryan Show, hosts and guests analyzed the novel as a largely pro-war exploration of militaristic society, noting its famous premise that service guarantees citizenship. Commentators like Tim Pool and various callers on Timcast IRL have similarly used Heinlein's framework to debate contemporary political philosophies and societal structures. Whether praised for its imaginative world-building or critiqued for its political ideology, the novel remains a perennial flashpoint for conversations regarding duty, governance, and the ethics of state power.
Every mention
Tim Pool Sean Hanna says you guys should read books by Robert a Heinlein Heinlein my favorite is Starship Troopers h… 13
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“i'll make it easy for you tim the left are the society of demolition man the right are the society of starship starship troopers”
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“I actually really like the idea of a Civil Service Corp going back to Starship Troopers you know everybody memes on the movie but the book is serious”
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“what a truly amazing piece of literature the Starship Troopers yeah you guys have you guys I'm just watching us watch”
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“are you familiar with the starship starship troopers so we've brought that up a lot service guarantees citizenship”
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“in the book version of starship troopers service is anything meant to serve your fellow man most being government services like like mail road construction etc”
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“service guarantees citizenship are you familiar with that starship troopers”
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“pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay and claims a halo for his dishonesty robert heinlein interesting he wrote starship”
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“i know a lot of people love to bring up starship troopers yeah have you read starship troopers you haven't”
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“director said outright starship troopers is fascist that he didn't and wouldn't read it and made the movie as a propaganda piece to push his own uninformed views on the book”
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“which Heinlein predicted this in Starship Troopers no punishment for children or criminals no instilling of civic or personal responsibility”
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“let's jump to talking about hypocrites breaking civil rights law man in this world they really know how to scream but we'll breathe we'll start with this”
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“Nikolas says you should you should read starship troopers it depicts a society in which you have to put in two years of military service for the right to vote or hold office still have other basic rights though”
Recommended
“Sean Hanna says you guys should read books by Robert a Heinlein Heinlein my favorite is Starship Troopers he writes some really good-sized scifi books if you wrote starships man”
AJ Pasciuti One of my favorite books is Starship Troopers. And inside of the book Starship Troopers, they talk about ci… 1
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“One of my favorite books is Starship Troopers. And inside of the book Starship Troopers, they talk about citizen versus civilian.”
Palmer Luckey these are ideas that are from 1959 like Starship Troopers novels 2
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“these are ideas that are from 1959 like Starship Troopers novels”
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“you can even go back to Robert Heinen's 1959 novel Starship Troopers and that was really the concept behind the mobile infantry”
Robert Evans And his favorite book was probably Robert Heinland's Starship Troopers, surprising no one. Uh his sister to… 2
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“And his favorite book was probably Robert Heinland's Starship Troopers, surprising no one. Uh his sister told the Daily Mail that he reads Starship Troopers once a year, which completely makes sense.”
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“He was kind of like Gene Rodenberry in that like a number of his his science fiction books at the time were like ahead of the curve on things like racial justice and not in a way that is particularly impressive today”
Carl Benjamin so i did a video on starship troopers a while ago and i had to read a lot about fascism because the accusat… 1
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“so i did a video on starship troopers a while ago and i had to read a lot about fascism because the accusation on the book and the movie is that it's a fascist book a movie”
Garrison Davis And the book Starship Troopers is a largely pro-war exploration of militarism using a science fiction setting. 1
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“And the book Starship Troopers is a largely pro-war exploration of militarism using a science fiction setting.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker4
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“Robert Heinland said it the best. He wrote Starship Troopers. That which is given has no value.”
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“But I'm team Heinland, man. What is that? Service guarantees citizenship for everybody. Yeah.”
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“in Starship Troopers anyone was allowed I'm like I'm saying they'll make up excuses to excise you so that they only have their crackpot Communists with the ability to vote to be fair”
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“isn't that the premise of Starship Troopers too”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“in the Heinlein sense, you know, Starship Troopers, that kind of thing.”
Passing
“that's from Starship Troopers”
Passing
“I mean I think one of the most inspirational books that the uniomber referenced was by Al Gore. Right. Right. Um, and Timothy McVey for just to go back to him was also heavily influenced by [ __ ] Star Trek.”
Passing
“also I want to say thanks to whoever sent this book starship trooper I never read the book but I hear the book is way more legit than me”