Starship Troopers

Join us as we discuss the sixth Hugo Award winner: Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers! 

Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com‬ on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/

This month's guest is journalist and long-time Doctor Who podcaster, Warren Frey, @freyburg.bsky.social, from Radio Free Skaro.

From about 4:18 to about 27:30, Christine is recapping the book, which has A LOT of spoilers. The rest of the episode isn't spoiler free, but that section goes through the plot in detail. 

Some things mentioned in the episode: 

• Leo Laporte MacBreak 
• 1960 Hugo nominees
• Proceedings for the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies
• Theodore Cogswell
• Anthony Boucher, founder of SFF
• Poul Anderson
• Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll 
• John Scalzi's Old Man's War
• Paul Verhoeven
• Joe Haldeman The Forever War 
• Jo Walton on the 1960 Hugos: https://reactormag.com/hugo-nominees-1960/

New intro music by Breakz Studios!

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