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Starship Troopers was a far different story in each medium, but I think the movie is much more worthy of your time
+1 the movie is pure epic satire
I do like PKD as an author, I just never quite liked Starship Troopers the book, even though it's got some nice Forever War vibes to it
Starship Troopers is Heinlein not Dick, and it's fascist nonsense. Verhoeven was right to throw the book in the bin after two chapters and the movie rules.
@solitaire I do think there is still an undercurrent in the book that maybe this isn't all okay. In that sense I always thought of the movie just surfacing that an making it a major theme. For me at least I've never seen them as opposing each other the way a lot of people do. But then again there's a lot of people out there that didn't realize the Empire in Star Wars is supposed to be facist, so there's a lot to be said for not being subtle.