/lit/ - Literature

Give me your best.

The Forever War

Well-written, by a man who is both a Vietnam vet and an astrophysics student. It has mysterious aliens, relative time and its consequences, and excellent bootcamp style scenes.

Starship Troopers

Comparable to the former, but from the opposite end of the spectrum politically, sorta. The first military sci-fi novel that military men could read without laughing.

>Ender's Game

More psychological than both previous novels, is less military, less sci-fi, in a way, and more about dem feels. Love it or hate it. Deeper than most novels of the same ilk.

>Armor

Balls to the wall action with an interesting plot. Worth a read but the more shallow of all on this list.

The novel that made military sci-fi readable to actual soldiers.

Loved every page of it.

Still one of my favourite military sci-fi.

This is fucking badass and has a right wing approach, for a change.

I pine for more right wing authors but can't find many.

>>4291429

Here's real sci-fi, bro. Manly, too.

The Forever War
Starship Troopers
Ender's Game

Fucking loved each of these. Troopers is by the same author: fucking glorious, first military sci-fi that actual soldiers could take seriously.

Starship Troopers

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. I was in charge of my own life, and because of this, I had put responsibilities on the lower priority in my life. Since I was alone, I had no formal education, and because of this, I was forced to work minimum wage jobs my entire life. I had to acquire my necessities on my own, therefore, associated myself with some unsavory characters, and had trouble with the law. Also, no running water, electric, or heat poses another set of problems altogether. However, no matter what situation in life you find yourself in, it’s about how you deal with it, and what you learn. I learned a lot about the world, and myself, and wouldn’t do anything differently given the chance.

So, i just finished this "book", and i got to ask, why is it regarded as important? The power armor is in action for all of 2 sorties, the characters are non existent, and he doesn't even describe how anything LOOKS, aside from a very in depth description of the drop pod and some jewelry.Is there something im missing here?

-Can a novel have more dull characters?
-The prose is unnerving.
-The structure is boring. If anything happens, it feels boring and insignificant.
-It lacks nearly everything that makes a good read.

Thoughts?

Almost made me want to enlist.
But no...
i'm not badass enough.

IS IT SATIRE!?

What does /lit/ think about this book? I just finished it myself and was surprisingly pleased with it.

Finished this a few days ago.

It had an endearing campiness, but someone convince me it's not just thinly veiled militaristic propaganda.

Just finished readin Starship Troopers. Fuck that Commie Euro Pinko Paul Verhoeven for ruining such a great book.

"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off? Of course not. You'd paddle it. There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an axe. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him...but to make him do what you want to do. Not killing...but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose of the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how -- or why -- he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people -- 'older and wiser heads,' as they say -- supply the control. Which is as it should be." [Heinlein 1959:63, emphasis and ellipses in original]

Has anyone else read this and come away with something of value from it?

Or is this more of a /k/ discussion?