5/11/2023 0 Comments Heinlein citizen of the galaxyHe meets many people along the way and is exposed to a wide variety of ways of life, most notably the ways of the cult-like Free Trader community and those of the Hegemonic Guard of Earth and its surrounding planets. Thus, Thorby safely escapes the planet Jubbul and embarks on an adventure that will carry him across the galaxy. Fortunately for Thorby, this adoptive father had arranged before his death for Thorby to leave the planet Jubbul on a Free Trader ship. Thorby, who knows very little of Baslim's covert activities, is wanted by the authorities for questioning, and goes into hiding. When his espionage activities are eventually discovered by the harsh, autocratic government of the planet Sargon, Baslim winds up dead. Baslim, aware that this education will not help him on a world where social mobility is very limited, begins arranging for Thorby's future, of which the boy is only partially aware. Through Baslim, Thorby receives an exceptional education atypical of the slave of a lowly beggar on an isolated planet. He appears to be a simple beggar, but is later revealed to be an anti-slavery agent (with a long history of heroism) who is working undercover.īaslim raises the boy, Thorby, as his own son, nurturing and educating him. He is purchased by an old, one-eyed, one-legged man named Baslim. As the story opens, a starved, scared young boy is being sold on an auction block on a faraway planet.
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