by I first read this as a teenager and again in my early twenties as I slowly accumulated all of Heinlein’s books from used bookstores. This is probably the first time in something close to twenty years I’ve picked the book up. I’m glad I did. This is not an action-adventure military SF tale, much as the title and the cover would want you to believe otherwise. Sure, there’s some of that, but it’s not the primary story, which is the exploration of a particular kind of societal construct through the eyes of someone who grew up under its influence. You see the word fascist thrown around a lot in…