Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein

Citizen of the Galaxy (Penguin science fiction) (Peacock Books)

by Robert A. Heinlein

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!

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3 of 5 stars

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More mature than "Have Spacesuit" but still a good example of Heinlein's juvenile fiction.

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