Boy Meets Suit, Boy Repairs Suit, Boy Loses Suit Over on James Nicoll's blog , a comment thread went off on two successive tangents, first into books that are "responses" to other books-- in which (of course) Starship Troopers and The Forever War came up-- and then into Heinlein's talent for making the reader sit still for lengthy expository material. joelrosenberg , himself a prolific novelist, wrote: Joe Haldeman [...]thought that Starship Troopers was a much more ambitious book... read more
