An artist on creating the retro art for a new edition of Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers

The Folio Society is responsible for a number of beautiful editions of classic works of science fiction. Earlier this fall, it began offering another fan-favorite edition: Robert L. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers.

The specialty publisher has released high-end books for more than 50 years, has only recently begun to issue its own editions of genre works like Frank Herbert’s Dune, Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, and others, which Starship Troopers now joins.

Heinlein’s controversial book was first published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War, depicting a brutal war between humans and a civilization of insectoid aliens. Heinlein uses the novel to muse about a citizen’s responsibilities to their...

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