This classic interview was conducted at the Disclave science fiction convention in 1976.
Q: Was The Forever War in any way a response to Starship Troopers?
Q:The Forever WarStarship TroopersHALDEMAN: No. That’s interesting... I got seventy pages into it before somebody pointed out that I had stolen plot, all of the characters, all of the hardware from Starship Troopers. It hadn’t occurred to me. I was writing what I considered to be a science fiction extension of my own Vietnam novel, and it turned out to follow the form of Starship Troopers, at least the first half, very closely.
HALDEMAN:Starship TroopersStarship TroopersQ: Were you aware of Starship Troopers at this time? Had you read it?
Q:Starship TroopersHALDEMAN: Oh, I’d read it three or four times. I was not thinking of it whil
