Storyline: 2/5 
 Characters: 3/5 
 Writing Style: 3/5 
 World: 4/5 
 --Below information added approximately a year after original reading-- 
 If asked to justify my approval of Starship Troopers, I would have difficulty defending my preference. I suppose I liked the adolescent, coming-to-adulthood and maturation story set in a science fiction universe. It is a story of a grunt - an everydayman, common soldier as he gets caught up in martial life. The character's evolution and increasing familiarity with the military reminds the reader that soldiering conditions the trooper, leaving him among others similarly conditioned and in control [by definition] of all the guns. Not a fully developed science fiction story or a fully developed exposition of military life, the two parts fit together in a slipshod fashion that unjustifiably resonates.