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Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the U.S. suspending nuclear tests, the story was first published as a two-part serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. P. Putnam's Sons in December 1959.
Starship Troopers is a 1997 American satirical military science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier. It originally came from an unrelated script called Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine, but eventually licensed the name Starship Troopers from a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military unit. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an insectoid species known as "Arachnids".
Starship Troopers is a board wargame by Avalon Hill based on the novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally released in 1976 and designed by Randall C. Reed. Avalon Hill redesigned and re-released a "movie" version in 1997 to coincide with the movie's release.
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation is a 2004 military science-fiction action television film directed by Phil Tippett and starring Richard Burgi, Lawrence Monoson, and Colleen Porch. It is a sequel to Starship Troopers (1997) and the second installment of the Starship Troopers film series. The film premiered on Encore Action on April 24, 2004 and was released on DVD on June 1, 2004; it was also released on VHS.
Starship Troopers: The Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game produced by Mongoose Publishing in 2005. The game is based upon the book Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, two movies, and cartoon series. While it is impossible to seamlessly merge all three different interpretations, this RPG does not pick one over the other, instead merging the three as best it can.
Juan "Johnny" Rico is a fictional character and the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 military science fiction novel Starship Troopers. Rico is a space marine in the fictional "Mobile Infantry", an army group which is airdropped into combat by "dropships". He also appears in the 1988 Starship Troopers OVA series, the 1997, 2008, 2012 and 2017 installments of the film series and the 1999 television series Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles.
Starship Troopers: The Miniatures Game was a short-lived miniature wargame released in 2005 by UK gaming company Mongoose Publishing. It drew upon the novel, films, and TV series as inspiration through a license from Sony. The game was pulled from the shelves in 2007, and formally discontinued a year later.
Starship Troopers is a first-person shooter game developed by British company Strangelite Studios and published by Empire Interactive. The game is based upon the 1997 film Starship Troopers by Paul Verhoeven.
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder is a 2008 American military science fiction film written and directed by Edward Neumeier and starring Casper Van Dien who returned as Johnny Rico from the original film, along with Jolene Blalock and Boris Kodjoe. It is a sequel to Starship Troopers (1997) and Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) and the third installment of the Starship Troopers film series.
"I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper", sometimes cited as "(I Lost My Heart to A) Starship Trooper", is a 1978 single written by Jeff Calvert and Geraint Hughes of Typically Tropical and performed by Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip. It was the debut of the 18-year-old singer, and reached number six in the UK Singles Chart.
Starship Troopers is a 1959 book by Robert Heinlein. It may also refer to:
Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy is a real-time tactics video game developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and published by Hasbro Interactive under the MicroProse label on October 28, 2000. The game is based on both the 1997 movie Starship Troopers and the book Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.
Starship Troopers: Invasion is a Japanese-American 2012 computer-animated military science fiction film directed by Shinji Aramaki. The film is a sequel to Starship Troopers (1997), ignoring the events of Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) and Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008). It is the fourth installment of the Starship Troopers film series. The film was released in Japan on July 21, 2012 and in North America on August 28, 2012 as a direct-to-video title.
Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars is a 2017 Japanese-American computer animated military science fiction film. The film is a sequel to Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) and the fifth installment of the Starship Troopers film series. It also marks the return of two original actors from the first film. Casper Van Dien reprises his role as Johnny Rico from the first and third films and Dina Meyer reprises her role as Dizzy Flores from the first film.
Starship Troopers is an American military science-fiction media franchise based on the novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein.
