Influences On The Series
Reviewers have attributed a number of influences from other sources, in particular the influence, on Book 3, of a number of classic anti-war science-fiction stories. These notably include a couple of stories written partly as a response to the gung-ho attitude of Starship Troopers:
- Traveller's Rest (1965) by David I. Masson (collected in The Caltraps of Time)
- Bill, the Galactic Hero (1965) by Harry Harrison
- The Forever War (1975) by Joe Haldeman
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) and So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984) by Douglas Adams: in these novels the second to most intelligent lifeform on Earth are the Dolphins.
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