{"id":429,"date":"2009-07-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2009-07-07T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T07:00:00","slug":"starship-troopers-by-heinlein-robert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"<u>Starship Troopers<\/u>, by Heinlein, Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the annals of military science fiction, one book has always stood apart in my mind as the epitome of excellence.  That book is Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.  A controversial book to say the least, its also one of the best coming-of-age novels that SF has to offer.  It may also be one of the most storied novels in the history of our genre as well; the controversy surrounding its submission by Heinlein to Scribner&apos;s is legendary.  So legendary in fact that it would be a horrible w<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/306'>[&#8230;]<\/a><BR><br \/>\n<A href = 'http:\/\/www.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php\/reviews\/info\/306'>Read the rest of this review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the annals of military science fiction, one book has always stood apart in my mind as the epitome of excellence. That book is Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. A controversial book to say the least, its also one of the best coming-of-age novels that SF has to offer. It may also be one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[2479,2636,2643,2494,2468,2464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.omphalosbookreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}