[Lurker]

Short stories? Try "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. That's a good one.

I'd recommend "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein, too. MUCH better than the movie. "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" is another good one by the same author.

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[El Sordo]

Props for any of Heinlein’s “juveniles”.

I can’t recommend Heinlein’s later works unless a person has very flexible views of morality.

[Secret Agent Man]

I’d like to see them do “Wired” by Walter Jon Williams. When Omni was still in print they’d have excellent short sci-fi stories and they ran an excerpt of “Wired” in it and I had to find out more about that weasel and found the book.

[Vanders9]

The movie “Starship Troopers” was an utter abortion. Horrible, disgraceful and cynical manipulation of the point of the novel. The book isn’t perfect (far too preachy, as much of Heinlein’s later work is) but to distort it like Hollywood did is just plain wrong.

[Tanniker Smith]

wrote: Short stories? Try "Anthem" by Ayn Rand. That's a good one.
I'd recommend "Starship Troopers" by Heinlein, too. MUCH better than the movie. "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" is another good one by the same author.

Just to clarify, those are short novels, not short stories. I've read two of the three. Starship Troopers might be in the Young Adult section of the library.