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[-] CicadaSpectre@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 9 months ago

The book is very different from the film, especially in tone. The film is pure satire, but the book was quite serious in its anticommunist themes, going so far as using the Arachnids as a metaphor for - specifically - Asian communists. Heinlein thought of Asian communists as virtually mindless, sacrificing themselves for the collective - like bugs.

[-] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 9 months ago

I mean fair enough, I had heard that about the book, but I have never personaly read the book.

[-] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

It is well written enough to be an uncomfortably good piece of fashy propaganda.

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