The story of spaceflight into the jaws of the unknown.
Stowed-away aboard an intergalactic spacecraft, Max Jones was unwittingly destined for disaster.
Disaster that only became apparent when the starship landed on an unknown planet in an unknown century.
When the pilot died and all his charts and tables were destroyed, Max Jones was fighting for survival...

First published in the USA by Ballantine Books by arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons in 1975
© 1953 by Robert A Heinlein
FIRST NEL PAPERBACK EDITION November 1976
Reprinted February 1977
This new edition 1980

Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers are the jet-propelled infantrymen of the future. In a galactic war of untold violence and destruction, they scour the metal-strewn emptiness of space and hunt out The Enemy.

But neither the viciousness of their electronic armour nor the bloodthirsty militarism of their training can save them from the grip of loneliness and fear.

Heinlein is an acknowledged master of Science Fiction, a genius who has become spokesman for a whole generation. And his starship trooper John Rico, rising from boyhood dreams to high command in the cosmos, is a hero of the first dimension - and beyond.

A much abridged version of this book was published in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine under the title 'Starship Soldier'. First published in this edition in the USA by G P Putnam's Sons, New York, and simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada by Longmans, Green & Company in 1960.
© 1959 by Robert A Heinlein

This edition October 1982