Citizen of the Galaxy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (679 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786183810 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 169 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"''Declared him a free subject of the Sargon, entitled to taxes, military service, and starvation without let or hindrance.''" according to Clay Garner. Read this fifty years ago. Reread several times. Still special. I did not know why I was touched then, now I (maybe) understand.The characters, like many of Heinlein's, have stayed with me. This work focuses on personal free will (as do most of Heinlein's books) and the contrast of group submission. Heinlein, like Dick Francis, writes from a moral, ethical base.Book can be divided into three sections; Thorby as a slave begger, then ado. It is easy because for a variety of reasons Mr Heinlein is Theodore Russell Moore It is tough because I have so many favorites authors. It is easy because for a variety of reasons Mr Heinlein is as good as any of the very best. Better than an easy 99% of all authors. Hard to flat say very best because there are so many different kinds of best. Some of his stuff is hard to recommend because some people decide to be offended by just about anything but Heinlein's writing is almost always good for anyone who reads with . Excellent but be warned This book is a novel, yes, but it is also a study in anthropology and relativism. That makes it slow and heavy. If it wasn't slow and heavy, the anthropology would be wrong. It's that simple. I'm fairly certain the anthropologist Margaret Mead is in there. As an exploration of multiculturalism, it's excellent. And so badly needed today.It is also moderately hard science fiction. An exploration of higher dimensional Euclidian spaces? An
''Science, mystery, and strong ethical concepts give the book sure appeal to devotees of science fiction.'' --Saturday Review''Sometimes satirical, probingly provocative, this is a characteristic Heinlein off-the-ground mirage, with the protagonist encountering the values of a free society, weighing the worth of the individual.'' --Kirkus Reviews''Absorbing, convincing, and well written combination of science fiction and mystery.'' --School Library Journal
SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child -- unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar -- Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippledmaster .OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked his life to deliver a dead man's message and found himself both guest and prisoner aboard an alien spaceship .CITIZEN: Unaware of his role in an ongoing intrigue, Thorby became one of the freest of the free in the entire galaxy as the adopted son of a noble space captain until he became a captive in an interstellar prison that offered everything but the hope of escape!