Ender S Game Starship Troopers
I m almost through reading ender s game by orson scott card and i can t help but see certain similarities to the movie starship troopers.
Ender s game starship troopers. If you haven t read it it s quite good. Ender is the tool of a military complex who use his ability without allowing him the luxury of understanding what it is he is doing. Set in a dystopia where teenagers are pitched in battle against each other ender s game might sound like another hunger games rip. Already the news that columbia pictures is planning a new movie adaptation of starship troopers the sci fi war story published by robert a.
Cold war fears of invasion by the soviet union. Ender s game 1985 allegorically treat u s. Starship troopers was written for the post wwii generation by a participant in that war. Heinlein therefore often swerves dangerously close to message fiction but it never becomes intolerable this book is heinlein s vehicle to explain who he thinks should rule a society and what principles should inform that ruling.
Given the texts historical relationship to the vietnam war and their use of very similar science fiction tropes namely invasion by communistic insect like aliens i argue that orson scott. In ender s the aliens attempt to colonize our planet first whereas in starship troopers we start things by trying to colonize their world. Ender s game was written a quarter century later for the post vietnam generation. Starship troopers also features a insectoid foe similar to the buggers.
When harry potter met the starship troopers. Heinlein in 1959 has divided social media over whether. They reach very different conclusion about response to authority and trust in government. In both movies the military and the government are not telling the general populace the whole story.
The movie while entertaining satire is an abomination and heinlein is still spinning in his grave because of it. Beware spoiler that gives away ending of the book. Ender s game is in a sense about the high price of unthinking aggression. Book talk ender s game and starship troopers.
Starship troopers sixty years old is a famous work of science fiction as with most robert heinlein novels the point is more the ideas than plot or character. Starship troopers is anything but anti war. Ender s game aside from referencing warfighting in the forward is a treatise on the burdens of command orienting on the enemy etc. Rico would win ender s game be pumped and ask for more.
Humans fighting bugs in space and kids doing the fighting.