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This is my rendition of the Terran powered infantry armor, used in the classic Heinlein novel Starship Troopers.







Starship Troopers is (c) the estate of Robert Heinlein.

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I don't want to spam your dA inbox, but I looked at all the awesome drawings you posted today! Very nice. I think this one is my favorite. =)

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Thanks!

As for the drawing, Starship Troopers helped kick-start my lifelong obsession with the concept of powered armor, so I owe Robert Heinlein a great debt of gratitude.

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"I don't like being a bastard, but they leave me no choice."

-Marshal Law, "The Hateful Dead"
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Mr. Heinlein's works are awesome. :)
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Absolutely. My first exposure to his stuff was through my grandfather, an avowed old-time science fiction fan. He wasn't too happy about the state of 'modern' sci-fi, but he loved the classics, and I learned to appreciate them through him. He had me read The Puppet Masters, and I was hooked.

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"I don't like being a bastard, but they leave me no choice."

-Marshal Law, "The Hateful Dead"
:iconbluessaurus:
I first read Starship Troopers, when I was a freshmanat the college, and it hooked me.
Later, I got Stranger in a strange land, Friday, The menace from Earth, Revolt in 2100, Time enough for love, the man who sold the Moon and I will fear no evil. I look for his books furiously, because these are rare here in Brazil...
I love Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz and Ray Bradbury's works, too.
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All excellent books. That's why it bothered me how bad and how off-target the film version of Starship Troopers was. Starting from the casting... turning 'Juan Rico' into a whitewashed 'Johnnie' was stupid, but filling up the movie with 90210 rejects was even worse. They reversed the whole theme of the book, and for no well-thought out reason. About the only good thing to come out of it was the Bug design.

Canticle was awesome, and my first Bradbury exposure was seeing the movie version of Fahrenheit 451; I sought out the book, and was a convert from that point on.

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"I don't like being a bastard, but they leave me no choice."

-Marshal Law, "The Hateful Dead"
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Haha, it really looks like "an armored gorilla" as described in the novel. Excellent work!!

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Thanks! I always loved that description, and Johnny's little comment about how he originally thought that was the reason DIs always started out with "You apes..."

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"I don't like being a bastard, but they leave me no choice."

-Marshal Law, "The Hateful Dead"
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I should have had this one in the movie that was made.
Cool armor. :D
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Yeah, I wish they'd used the armor in the movie, myself. It was the whole POINT of the title, after all!

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"I don't like being a bastard, but they leave me no choice."

-Marshal Law, "The Hateful Dead"

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