 Heinlein's early novel "Sixth Column" was called a "racist paean" to a white resistance movement against an Asian horde derived from the Yellow Peril.In 1978, Moorcock wrote that "Starship Troopers" "set the pattern for Heinlein's more ambitious paternalistic, xenophobic" stories.Robert Lowndes argues that the war between the Terrans and the Arachnids is not about a quest for racial purity, but rather an extension of Heinlein's belief that man is a wild animal.