Starship Troopers was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in October and November 1959 as a serial called Starship Soldier. Although originally written as a juvenile for Scribner's, the publisher rejected it. This ended Heinlein's association with Scribner's. He wrote, "I am tired of being known as a 'leading writer of children's books', and nothing else." Putnam published the novel in 1960 as teenage fiction.
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