[Mick]

[quote author=leftcoast link=topic=10346.msg94196#msg94196 date=1407910673]
Have you read Forever War and Old Man's War?  Both seemed to me to be obvious authorial responses to Heinlein's vision in Starship Troopers.  You might even throw Ender's Game into that mix (another ho-hum movie adaptation, by the way).

Still, it speaks to the power of Heinlein's simple militaristic/humanistic "bug" story that 50 years later authors are still reacting to it.

I haven't read Forever War or Old Man's War, I'll have to check them out.  And I completely agree with your observation of Heinlein's Starship Troopers influence 50 years later.  You could even make an argument for Renaissance Man's thread inspiring "Edge of Tomorrow" as drawing influence from the ST tree. 

I refuse to watch Ender's Game as this was my favorite book through the better part of my teenage years and can't imagine any film adaptation not completely ruining it. 

My sci-fi tastes have now transferred to Neal Stephenson who seems largely immune to film adaptations by restricting his tomes to at least 1000 pages.
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By that, I mean taht I feel exactly the same way as you do.  I do like Stephenson, and I don't see any realistic translation of his books to movies, save for a lengthy miniseries.

Stephen King didn't much like The Shining movie.  The Shining was the first King book I read and still among my favorites, but I thought that the movie was at least its equal, perhaps for different reasons.  King himself said that movies fit more to the structure of novellas (100 pages or so) like the movie Stand by Me which was adopted from King's novella The Body.

[Mick]

[quote author=leftcoast link=topic=10346.msg94196#msg94196 date=1407910673]
Have you read Forever War and Old Man's War?  Both seemed to me to be obvious authorial responses to Heinlein's vision in Starship Troopers.  You might even throw Ender's Game into that mix (another ho-hum movie adaptation, by the way).

Still, it speaks to the power of Heinlein's simple militaristic/humanistic "bug" story that 50 years later authors are still reacting to it.

I haven't read Forever War or Old Man's War, I'll have to check them out.  And I completely agree with your observation of Heinlein's Starship Troopers influence 50 years later.  You could even make an argument for Renaissance Man's thread inspiring "Edge of Tomorrow" as drawing influence from the ST tree. 

I refuse to watch Ender's Game as this was my favorite book through the better part of my teenage years and can't imagine any film adaptation not completely ruining it. 

My sci-fi tastes have now transferred to Neal Stephenson who seems largely immune to film adaptations by restricting his tomes to at least 1000 pages.
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By that, I mean taht I feel exactly the same way as you do.  I do like Stephenson, and I don't see any realistic translation of his books to movies, save for a lengthy miniseries.

Stephen King didn't much like The Shining movie.  The Shining was the first King book I read and still among my favorites, but I thought that the movie was at least its equal, perhaps for different reasons.  King himself said that movies fit more to the structure of novellas (100 pages or so) like the movie Stand by Me which was adopted from King's novella The Body.