Project Gutenberg 2007-03-03 Public domain in the USA. 142 Piper, H. Beam 1904 1964 Piper, Henry Beam Piper, Horace Beam A Slave is a Slave Produced from Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction April 1962. Reading ease score: 73.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, LN Yaddanapudi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "A Slave is a Slave" by H. Beam Piper is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story centers around the Galactic Empire's annexation of the planet Aditya, where the locals, who have lived under a system of slavery for centuries, suddenly find themselves confronted with the Empire’s principles of freedom and autonomy. The narrative explores themes of power, societal structure, and the complexities of transitioning from a deeply rooted slave society to one that may embrace freedom. The opening of the novel introduces several key characters, including Prince Jurgen Trevannion and Line-Commodore Vann Shatrak, who are involved in the military operation to take over Aditya. The tone reveals a tense atmosphere as they discuss the military strategies and the implications of their actions on the local population. Observations of the planet's governance highlight a bizarre social structure reliant on slavery, with the new Imperial forces contemplating how to impose their secular but ethical worldview on a populace that has never known freedom. Imperative debates among the characters set the stage for a larger conflict between ideals of liberty and the existing oppressive realities, as the narrative hints at both the administrative challenges and moral dilemmas ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 166810 166796 2024-10-09T06:57:41.942566 2023-09-09T09:09:58.395331 text/html text/html 164582 2021-01-01T19:47:07 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 636876 2021-01-01T19:47:07 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 692005 2024-10-09T06:57:50.217528 application/epub+zip 693843 2024-10-09T06:57:45.938570 application/epub+zip 119418 2024-10-09T06:57:43.800541 application/epub+zip 935879 2024-10-09T06:57:52.789504 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 921334 2024-10-09T06:57:48.627543 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 233572 2022-09-10T03:38:47.304924 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 151427 151328 2024-10-09T06:57:41.467564 2023-09-09T09:09:58.018317 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 151311 2021-01-01T19:47:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 56924 2021-01-01T19:47:07 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 6314544 2007-03-03T10:40:58 application/octet-stream application/zip 20916 2024-10-09T06:57:52.919483 application/rdf+xml 15357 2024-10-09T06:57:44.423533 image/jpeg 3934 2024-10-09T06:57:44.067548 image/jpeg 691265 2024-10-09T06:57:41.977542 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia