![]() ![]() When Baslim commits suicide to avoid being captured alive by the local authorities, Thorby delivers the message to Captain Krausa of the starship Sisu. In addition, Baslim has Thorby memorize a contingency plan and a message to deliver to one of five starship captains in the event of Baslim's arrest or death. Thorby slowly realizes that his foster father is not a simple beggar, but is gathering intelligence, particularly on the slave trade. Thereafter, Baslim treats the boy as a son, teaching him not only the trade of begging, but also mathematics, history, and several languages, while sending Thorby on errands all over the city. Thorby is a young, defiant boy who is purchased at a slave auction on the planet Jubbul by an old beggar, Baslim the Cripple, for a trivial sum and taken to the beggar's surprisingly well-furnished underground home. The Hegemonic Guard, the space military force of the human government, enforces the law and fights the slave trade on frontier planets. However human slavery has reappeared on some planets. ![]() The novel is set in a future when the human race has developed interstellar spaceflight and is engaged in trade with a number of alien races. The story is heavily influenced by Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (September, October, November, and December 1957) and published in hardcover in 1957 as one of the Heinlein juveniles by Scribner's. ![]() Citizen of the Galaxy is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. ![]()
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