• zero_spelled_with_an_ecks
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          7 months ago

          Yes, satire military propaganda. They also didn’t actually bring aliens on set. The aliens have a union and demanded pay that’s way too high for the budget.

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          7 months ago

          The book itself wasn’t, and also not a case for satire - it was a play on showing a militarist society based on values that (when it was written and even now) were highly atypical for militarist societies. Satire is honestly too a genre of propaganda, Heinlein was much deeper a person.