Starship Troopers is the story of Juan "Johnnie" Rico, a Filipino soldier in a futuristic spacefaring Earth military unit called the Mobile Infantry. Told in flashbacks, Rico's story is one of intense violence, taking place during a war with a race of sentient insects from another world. The novel spends a great deal of time reflecting from a Conservative point of view on war, service, nationalism, and other pertinent issues.
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