![]() ![]() ![]() He progresses from recruit to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between humans and an alien species known as "Arachnids" or "Bugs". The first-person narrative follows Juan "Johnny" Rico, a young man of Filipino descent, through his military service in the Mobile Infantry. Under this system, only veterans of the military enjoy full citizenship, including the right to vote. ![]() The story is set in a future society ruled by a human interstellar government dominated by a military elite called the Terran Federation. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. ![]()
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