Heheheheh yah Boroda, I liked Starship Troopers; I especially liked those 'mobile suits', I loved the politics and Heinlen has a brash way of putting forth concepts and ideas that reach out and grab yah by the cortex. Better than Starship Troopers.. Joe Haldermans "The Forever War". Try it. It's written for YOU, Boroda.
My favorite Heinlen.. "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". Best single Line in all of SF... the Loonies are plotting a Revolt from Earths domination with the help of a sentininet computer. The Committiee wonders what they can use for weapons and the computer replies..
"We can throw rocks."
"Stranger in a Strange Land"... another keeper. Possibly the most read SF book in history, and quite possibly contributed more sanity to the 60's than any other work in print at the time.
Heinlein could weave a world around you in just a few pages.. the "Cat Who Walks Through Walls" was superb, and as the father of SF "Future Histories" nothing can or ever will touch the compendium "The Past though Tomorrow" containing in their correct order:
Lifeline, The Roads Must Roll, Blowups Happen, The Man Who Sold The Moon (DD Harriman is my personal Hero.
), Deliliah and the Space Rigger, Space Jockey, Requim, The Black Pits of Luna, It's Great To Be Back, We also Walk Dogs, Searchlight, Ordeal in Space, The Green Hills of Earth (tearjerker), Logic of Empire (you'd love that one Boroda;)), The Menace from Earth, If This Goes On--, Coventry, Misfit, and Methuselah's Children.
Heinlen made two trips to the Soviet Union... his writings on his experiences there were the first honest view I had of the Soviet Mind.. revealing and informative. Very thought provoking.
Try to find "Pravda Means Truth".. though I doubt that one ever made into a Russian Translation.
