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Doesn't Starship Troopers use the term "Mobile Infantry?" This is about the term "Space Marine" not the concept of marines in space.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Doesn't Starship Troopers use the term "Mobile Infantry?" This is about the term "Space Marine" not the concept of marines in space.
- cygx 14y agoThe literal term 'Space Marine' is not as common as I thought, which isn't really that surpsising because if virtually all your marines operate in space, do you really need to add it to their name? However, I do believe that space marine is the most common generic term to refer to soldiers-in-space ooc (ie when discussing the archetype and not specific implementations like Heinlein's 'Mobile Infantry' - keep in mind there are actual space marines in some of his other stories, Alien's 'Colonial Marines' or Starcraft's 'Confederate Marines').
- darkarmani 14y agoYou're right. His earlier books used it though. The concept of space marines is a cliche in games and scify space books though.