Star landing

The Earth is attacked by a terrible enemy - the civilization of reasonable insects. It is impossible to understand them, to agree with them - it remains only to destroy until they destroyed you. And only if you suffered this pain, these hardships - you get the right to decide for others. “I tried to identify ... a certain fundamental basis of a person’s behavior, and I came to the conclusion that the only basis that does not require unproven assumptions is a matter of survival” - this is how Heinline identified the main theme of the “star landing” in a letter to another classic, Theodore Starkzhon. Well, Paul Verkhoven, in his sensational film adaptation of the classical novel, satirically sprinkled the Hinlinovsky "militarist utopia", which, if you look closely, is not too distinguishable from anti -utopia. The novel deservedly received the most prestigious of the "fantastic" awards - "Hugo"