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''Starship Troopers'' clearly influenced many later science fiction stories, setting a tone for the military in space, a type of story referred to as Military Science Fiction .
- John Steakley 's novel '' Armor '' was, according to the author, born out of frustration with the small amount of actual combat in ''Starship Troopers'' and because he wanted this aspect developed further. The themes are similar, it also contains exoskeletons and insect-like aliens.
- John Scalzi 's novel ''Old Man's War'' is, according to the author (in comments to this blog post ), explicitly patterned after ''Starship Troopers''; in the book's acknowledgments, he thanks Heinlein for "debts that have become obvious."
- , as it was in Heinlein's novel, and its military is headed by a Sky Marshal , as in Heinlein's novel. Also, the Marines wear powered combat armor.
Conversely, for a Tuberculosis infection and served out WWII doing R&D at the Philadelphia Navy Yard . For his part, Heinlein praised Haldeman's novel as outstanding science fiction, although he disagreed with the politics.
One of the most striking commonalities of the two novels is the degree to which military veteran characters in both find themselves estranged from their own culture, alien strangers in a strange land that they paradoxically are willing to die to defend, no matter how much their society looks upon them as oddities. The protagonists of both novels learn to build their own societies amongst their comrades, their brothers in arms.
Harry Harrison 's book '' Bill, The Galactic Hero '' is often considered a criticism of Heinlein's book, though his other parodies, like '' Star Smashers Of The Galaxy Rangers '' ( 1973 ) also lampooned the military SF typical of ''Starship Troopers''.
In recent years, John Ringo 's popular science fiction novel series Legacy Of The Alldenata (popularly known as the Posleen series) featured a more explicit homage to Heinlein's book. A series of novels traces the events surrounding a massive, late 20th Century series of invasions of Earth by a hive-like but non-arachnid alien race called the Posleen, which have been fought for centuries by a coalition of various alien races, who provide technical aid to allow the armed forces of Earth to resist the invasion, and also serve as Colonial Troops on other planets invaded by the Posleen. Various science fiction writers and ex-military personnel are recruited, some rejunvenated, and develop various naval and ground forces based on science fiction novels. One effort is the development of Armored Combat Suits to be deployed in various ''Mobile Infantry'' Battalions.
The Comic Book franchise has been held by Dark Horse , Mongoose Publishing and currently Markosia . Publications have included:
- '' Starship Troopers '':
- ---'' Starship Troopers'' ( Trade Paperback , 1998, ISBN 1-56971-314-6) collects:
-- " Starship Troopers" (by Den Beauvais , with pencils by Mitch Byrd and inks by Andrew Pepoy , 2-issue mini-series, 1997)
-- "Insect Touch" (by co-writers Warren Ellis and Gordon Rennie , with art by Davide Fabbri and Paolo Parente , 3-issue mini-series, 1997)
-- "Brute Creations" (by Jan Strnad , with pencils by Tommy Lee Edwards and inks by Robert Campanella , one-shot, 1997)
- --- "Blaze of Glory" (by Tony Lee and Sam Hart , Markosia , previously published through Mongoose Publishing )
- --- "Dead Man's Hand" (by Tony Lee and Neil Edwards , Markosia)
- --- "Damaged Justice" (by Tony Lee and Shanth Enjeti , Markosia)
- --- "Marooned" (by Tony Lee and Chris DiBari . Markosia)
- James Cameron 's '' Aliens '' movie incorporated themes and phrases right out of the novel such as the terms "the drop" and "bug hunt" as well as the cargo-loader exoskeleton. The actors playing the Colonial Marines were required to read ''Starship Troopers'' as part of their training prior to filming. {Link without Title}
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- Sierra Games ' '' Tribes '' series of First-person Shooter Computer Game s is influenced by the book, most notably in the core gameplay element of rocket-assisted powered armor that allows the combatants to bound over the terrain in giant, arcing leaps. During a training mission in '' Tribes 2 '', the training voice uses the phrase "on the bounce", from the novel.
- In the '', soldiers use Powered Battle Armor, which behaves much like the suits in ''Starship Troopers''. Various classes of suit exist, used by friendly and enemy forces. A notable difference is that the soldiers are not dropped from orbit, but instead jump from fast low-flying dropships (which may themselves be dropped from orbit from inter-planet transports). Paul Neurath later commented that he "had the concept for a squad level 3D tactical game loosely based on the fiction of ''Starship Troopers'' and '' The Forever War ''". {Link without Title}
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- Many of the thematic elements in '' series appear to be drawn from the novel, for example, the use of individual "drop pods" to deploy troops in a Cutscene in Halo 2 , and the use of strength-enchancing armor worn by Supersoldier s being used as Shock Troops .
- In 1976 Avalon Hill released the Board Wargame '' Starship Troopers '' based on Heinlein's book under license. The game was redesigned and rereleased in 1997, to tie in with the film.
- In 2005, Mongoose Publishing released the '' Starship Troopers Miniatures Wargame ''.
- ''Olympica'', a troopers must storm the tunnels and strongpoints of a hive-mind enemy ("Webbies") to capture a central computer (akin to a brain bug).
- The fictional universe Warhammer 40,000 clearly takes influence from Starship Troopers. Space Marines power armor resembles that of the MI. The Tyranids are heavily influenced by the Arachnids.
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