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''Starship Troopers'' is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published hardcover in December 1959. The story was first published (in abridged form) as a two-part serial in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' as ''Starship Soldier''. The first-person narrative is about a young soldier named Juan "Johnnie" Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military service branch equipped with powered armor. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs". Rico and the other characters discuss moral and philosophical aspects of suffrage, civic virtue, juvenile delinquency, corporal punishment, capital punishment, and war.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ROBERT A. HEINLEIN: THE NOVELS )〕〔〔〔 ''Starship Troopers'' won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1960 Award Winners & Nominees )〕 ==Writing of the novel== Some time during 1958 and 1959, Heinlein ceased work on the novel that would become ''Stranger in a Strange Land'' and wrote ''Starship Troopers''. It was first published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in October and November 1959 as a two part serial called ''Starship Soldier''. Although originally written as a juvenile novel for New York publishing house Scribner, it was rejected, prompting Heinlein to cease writing juvenile fiction for Scribners, to end his association with that publisher completely, and resume writing books with adult themes. The novel was eventually published as teenage fiction by G. P. Putnam's Sons.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=The Heinlein Society )〕 A senior editor at Putnam's, Peter Israel, purchased the novel and approved revisions that made it more marketable to adults, and dodged the issue of whether it was aimed at children or adults: "Let's let the readers decide who likes it," he said at a sales conference.〔Quoted by William H. Patterson, Jr., ''Robert A. Heinlein in Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2, 1948-1988: The Man Who Learned Better'' (New York: Tor, 2014), p. 173.〕 According to Heinlein, his desire to write ''Starship Troopers'' was sparked by the publication of a newspaper advertisement placed by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy on April 5, 1958 calling for a unilateral suspension of nuclear weapon testing by the United States. In response, Robert and Virginia Heinlein created the small "Patrick Henry League" in an attempt to create support for the U.S. nuclear testing program. Heinlein found himself under attack both from within and outside the science fiction community for his views. Heinlein used the novel to clarify and defend his military and political views at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Starship Troopers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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