Lifeboat Foundation

Starship Troopers.
by Robert A. Heinlein.
Read by Christopher Hurt.
Originally issued by NLS on cassette in 1982
Can we refrain from inane comments about fascism? Unless you have something constructive to say I’ll probably just delete it and block you from commenting in the future. Or I might turn off comments altogether. With that out of the way, enjoy the book.
“Thousands of years in the future, a young man joins mobile infantry and fights in an interplanetary war against insect-like aliens.“
Chapter list:
00:00:00 — (i) Book info.
00:01:03 — (01)
00:38:44 — (02)
01:17:03 — (03)
01:35:28 — (04)
01:51:35 — (05)
02:24:49 — (06)
03:03:54 — (07)
03:23:54 — (08)
03:49:49 — (09)
04:05:24 — (10)
04:36:24 — (11)
05:13:19 — (12)
06:25:44 — (13)
08:20:23 — (14)

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