Re: Between Planets was Star****p Troopers was Worst Hugos Ever?

douglas winston <douglas_winston@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> But I think that I couldn't really argue well against someone
>> who said that in any real world country where the military held
>> the keys to voting, things wouldn't turn out as happily as in
>> Star****p Troopers. 

> I have not been able to read _Take Back Your Government!_, so
> I have to ask you all if it is pertinent.

Not that I recall.  TBYG! is about how and why to get involved in 
practical politics at the local level as practiced in the 1940s US.  
A lot of the material there has echoes in "A Bathroom of Her Own" and 
_Double Star_, and it's presumably informed by his own political 
experiences during the 30s.  But as I recall (it's been a decade and 
a half) it was more about how to work within the existing system than 
speculation on major reform.

Mike

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