Starship Troopers may finally be getting the sequel we wanted

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@zathras

Actually, no. The movie preserved exactly the parts of the novel it needed to preserve to take a swing at them. The movie ignores many things that are important to fans of the novel, but it reproduces the most important of the things that will irk a European-style leftist. It reproduces them with interpretation, so a serious fan of the book who did not perceive it as a mindbogglingly disgusting militarist-fascist manifesto will perhaps not recognize those elements.

It has been about 20 years since I read the original, but I could swear that it ends with the main character getting rather disillusioned with the system, implying that the whole thing was supposed to be a dystopia not a philosophical treatise. I’m aware Heinlein’s politics were screwball, but not everything he wrote has to be considered as a manifesto. Particularly since I thought he leaned more right-wing-libertarian than right-wing-fascist.