Prolescum
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Your Funny Uncle said:I can never understand how anyone took the Starship Troopers movie at face value. It was so obviously taking the piss, especially given the tone of Verhoeven's previous sci-fi films Robocop and Total Recall...
Innit! It's so painfully clear, especially given Robocop. I doubt if it was specifically tailored to mock Heinlein, although he was politically to the right and a bit of a fascist by all accounts, but it most certainly holds up a mirror to American society and the barrage of propaganda that (still) fills its airwaves.
On topic, I'd agree about Asimov, Peter F. Hamilton and Iain M. Banks. All good stuff, and obviously anyone who's never read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy should be forced to do so at gunpoint.
I read a Peter F. Hamilton book called the nano flower, was pretty good.