
Robert Heinlein, “Starship Troopers”, 1959 was a military science-fiction novel set five millennia in the future. 5,000 years in the future, our troops are at war with arachnids. Yes, I said arachnids, and the space arachnids are deadly. Robert Heinlein’s, “Starship Troopers”, was the best Sci-Fi of 1959; and is today still a cult phenomena.