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Its a fantastic audio book. i'd like more sci-fi movies that are better books if you catch what im saying. recently i've listed to: the whole dune series, all the books arthur c clarke wrote regarding the monolith/space odyssey stuff. i have the expanse on deck after the current book is done. any thoughts?

Its a fantastic audio book. i'd like more sci-fi movies that are better books if you catch what im saying. recently i've listed to: the whole dune series, all the books arthur c clarke wrote regarding the monolith/space odyssey stuff. i have the expanse on deck after the current book is done. any thoughts?

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[–] • 3 pts (edited )

ST was intended as satire. Heinlein hated the military industrial complex.

I loved the book. The movie is decent, but COMPLETELY different.

Edit: I’m wrong

[–] • 2 pts

The movie was satire. The book was not. Hard to say he hated the MIC when half his books involve space battles with competent military leadership, especially in his earlier pre-hippie period.

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You have it backwards. The Starship Troopers movie was meant as satire but the book is supposed to be an honest exploration of the ideas around a militaristic society. Stranger in a Strange land is more of a satire about hippy culture, to wit, Heinlein was annoyed by how much hippies liked it and didn't get the joke.

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Dang, you’re right I did have it backwards. I must have gotten confused from a reviewer on the book. Thanks for catching that

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From my understanding the movie originated as a completely different concept that they retrofitted and slapped the name on because they owned the rights to it.