Editor’s Note: Another long-time friend, Terminus Est, has joined our ranks. He is a literature guy, as several of us are, but also has intelligent thoughts on many topics. He will find

The book. Not the movie. If you can even call Verhoeven’s bastardization “Starship Troopers” at all. Robert A. Heinlein is an increasingly controversial figure in recent years, moreso than he was in his lifetime.