re: #369 Targetpractice

It’s not that scifi has become “more political,” no more than comic books are suddenly becoming “political.” It’s that the people who are bitching about the politics are the ones who saw Robocop and thought it was nothing more than an action film.

Starship Troopers was butchered as a film, but the novel contains long discourses about the nature of political power and the political franchise.

Not that I agree with Heinlein’s conclusions, but the militarized superstate he describes arose not as the result of a coup but because world governments collapsed at the end of WW3, leaving soldiers and POWs stranded wherever they were.