Representation of the 'Alien' Other in Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers

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Like Philip K Dick. Robert A Heinlein continually used his novels to champion his personal views about the human condition vis-ὰ-vis the socio-political milieu to which he was a part Consequently Heinlein scholarship through the years has been preoccupied with either taking exception to or lending support to Heinlein's idiosyncratic world views This paper is a continuation of this line of debate, but while past studies of Starship Troopers have been largely focused on the author's evident promotion of fascism and militarism, this paper focuses on Heinlein's portrayal of the 'alien' other, not only to elucidate the author's own personal prejudices but also to properly gauge the cultural temper of the times to which the author was a part and in which the novel was produced Publiched during the early years of the Cold War era, Starship Troopers is in effect a treatise on the dangers of communism, made palpable by America's militaty involvement in the Korean Conflict, and the consequent need to defend and preserve the American way of life