Re: [SG] Re: Powered Armor Reading List

Scott said:
> I've always felt that Henlein's Starship Troopers and Joe Haldeman's
Forever 
> War should bee the bookend books of your sci-fi military bookshelf.
One at 
> each end to know that good ficition embraces it all. 

	I gave my young nephew a copy of each.
	I explained to him that Starship Troopers tended to
	be pro-military, conservative, pre-Vietnam, and
	Forever War tended to be anti-military, liberal,
	post-Vietnam.

> The movie of Starship 
> Troopers could best be used as toilet paper, however the filmstock is 
> abrasive and tends to chafe one's butt even when used in this fashion.

	No argument there.