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Date: October 22, 2019 08:04AM
Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> Heinlein also uses Mormons in one of the stories
> in that wonderful The Past Through Tomorrow.
> There too they are an anti-authoritarian community
> of hillbillies who stand up to an overweening
> federal government.
Mormons are referred to in Starship Troopers. I think the bugs destroy a Mormon space colony called Joseph Smith or Brigham Young City.
The extended commercial slick paid tribute to this in slightly altered form:
https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/MormonOrson Scott Card took the Heinlein's bugs, made them into Buggers (yes, he used that word) for Ender's Game, and then wondered why homosexuals were not down with it. They had to change the Buggers into Formics for the movie adaptation:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buggerAs Card says in Ender's Game:
"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."
And that:
"Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth."
The Grand Dame of Mormon space opera, however, is Battlestar Galactica.