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Somehow I had managed (over the decades) to miss this Heinlein novel. It like so many others is in many ways a masterpiece. We begin with a young boy who's a slave. His memories of who or what he was before his slavery are essentially nil. On the block he still shows some spirit, enough to get him cuffed.
But he doesn't sell. Being young, small and scrawny no one seems willing to put in the time and money it would take to train him up into a useful slave... No one buys him that is until a local ...more
But he doesn't sell. Being young, small and scrawny no one seems willing to put in the time and money it would take to train him up into a useful slave... No one buys him that is until a local ...more
One of my favorites. I was fascinated by the description of how Thorby the beaten slave boy was adopted, tamed, and education by Baslim the Cripple, who was much more than he seemed, how he escaped the Sargonese Empire and came to be adopted by the Free Traders and their unique culture, how he outgrew them and rejoined the earth-centered Hegemony, and finally found himself the long-lost heir to the wealthiest and most powerful corporation on Earth. The science is by now far outdated, but the rag
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