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Yeah, I rather liked that T'Phai also had a well-developed character and personality quirk* besides being just "the alien." *Specifically T'Phai was built up as having superhuman levels of patience and self-control.

Maybe it was just Heinlein showing how woke he was. I mean, the MI is all male and the Navy is all female so logically speaking the Sky Marshal has to be Trans by definition...

Lemme note that Heinlein was extremely fond of life-extension technologies in his sci-fi. I don't believe it's explicitly spelled out in Starship Troopers, Rico's dad signs up for the Mobile Infantry when Rico's fair along. He'd have to be at least in his 40s, probably 50s by that point and...

I know the perception that women would be better in space was common in that era, attributed to the relatively smaller body size and muscle mass requiring less oxygen, water, space, and food compared to a male, who'd be dragging along a larger body that wasn't needed when robots do the heavy...