36. "RE: FI Mini: Wish You Were Here"
In response to message #23
>What really irks me about that critique, though, is not the claim that >the fictional nation was militarist or fascist. It's the leap from >there to the claim that the author is those things. That the >same man wrote the hippie-neopagan favorite, Stranger in a Strange >Land, never seems to register with those bozos.
Not only did the same man write Stranger but he wrote it simultaneously with Starship Troopers. If I can briefly quote from Mendlesohn 2019:
In a letter to Frank Robinson dated 18 September 1969, he writes that when writing Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land, essentially alongside each other, there was never any conflict because both 'are based on the twin concepts of love and duty'.