Citizen of the Galaxy - Read Jim Fulner

No cover — Robert A. Heinlein: Citizen of the Galaxy (2001, Hale, The Crowood Press)

239 pages

English language

Published April 21, 2001 by Hale, The Crowood Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-7090-6800-6
OCLC Number:: 46908479

From helpless slave to beloved son to aspiring merchant to prodigal heir, Citizen of the Galaxy shows the inner and outer growth of a young man in a far-flung Galactic culture. From the moment he is bought and freed by the beggar Baslim (who is far more than he seems), young Toby learns the values of family, self-reliance, discipline, and self-knowledge. Galactic in its scope and personal in its depth, Citizen of the Galaxy is a well-crafted coming of age story set against a galaxy of contrasts.

In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free …

From helpless slave to beloved son to aspiring merchant to prodigal heir, Citizen of the Galaxy shows the inner and outer growth of a young man in a far-flung Galactic culture. From the moment he is bought and freed by the beggar Baslim (who is far more than he seems), young Toby learns the values of family, self-reliance, discipline, and self-knowledge. Galactic in its scope and personal in its depth, Citizen of the Galaxy is a well-crafted coming of age story set against a galaxy of contrasts.

In a distant galaxy, the atrocity of slavery was alive and well, and young Thorby was just another orphaned boy sold at auction. But his new owner, Baslim, is not the disabled beggar he appears to be: adopting Thorby as his son, he fights relentlessly as an abolitionist spy. When the authorities close in on Baslim, Thorby must ride with the Free Traders -- a league of merchant princes -- throughout the many worlds of a hostile galaxy, finding the courage to live by his wits and fight his way from society's lowest rung. But Thorby's destiny will be forever changed when he discovers the truth about his own identity. - Back cover.

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Jim Fulner reviewed Citizen Of The Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein

3 stars

This book was much deeper and darker than the others ind Heinlein's "Scribner's Junior" series. returnreturnOur protagonists begins as he is being sold as a slave. We then follow him throughout his life, living with his new owner who frees him and raises him as his own, a beggar in the street, to his father's surprising death, to a life on the "road" that is illusive to FireFly, to joining the military, to learning his birth identity. The book finally gets interesting in a move that will believe the whole universe could finally be changing for the better, and then its over.