Never occurred to me that Starship Troopers was based on a book, let alone a sci fi author I knew wrote reasonable books. If I'd had to, I'd have guessed a schlocky children's book that I would have steered my children away from. Another example of films completely avoiding the book the rights were bought for when the script was drawn up?
too many brain freezes for me on this... don't you just hate it when you KNOW you know the answer, but it just eludes you...til the time up closes the screen and then.. enlightenment
The wording of your comment threw me for a minute. I kept rereading the clue list for one that had the word "penultimate" in it :P