STARSHIP TROOPERS - REMAINDER Author:ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (Hugo Award Winner) Some 5,000 years in the future, mankind faces total destruction unless it defeats the creatures known as "Bugs," in this 1959 novel by the author of Stranger in a Strange Land, basis for the Academy Award-nominated 1997 film. Enlisting with the Terran Federation, idealistic Juan "Johnny" Rico undergoes a brutal indoctrination... more » into military discipline, eventually commanding his own platoon. When the Bugs make a devastating attack on Earth, however, it becomes personal for Rico, and a galaxy-wide war erupts.« less