Project Gutenberg 2010-04-12 Public domain in the USA. 92 Farrell, Joseph Farrel, Joseph Johnson The Ethical Way Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Ethical Way" by Joseph Farrell is a science fiction novella written during the mid-20th century. The book explores the complexities of ethics and morality in the context of interstellar relationships and societal hierarchies. Its narrative follows galactic beings who, while attempting to save a doomed Earth population, establish a system of servitude that questions the nature of ethics itself. Set against a backdrop of galactic colonization, the story follows Jarth Rolan and Lan Barda as they rescue survivors from Earth’s irradiated environment, ultimately taking them as slaves to their own society. Initially framed as a benevolent gesture, the arrangement reveals deeper implications as the enslaved humans navigate their new reality. As Jarth and Lan rationalize their actions with a veneer of ethicality, the humans, including Laurent Crotier and his family, grapple with adapting to their new lives, raising children, and cultivating a sense of identity within an oppressive system. As the narrative progresses, themes of exploitation, power dynamics, and the perception of freedom versus bondage emerge, painting a complex picture of an "ethical" way that ultimately feels hollow and self-serving for the galactic beings, highlighting the inherent contradictions within their moral framework. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31962/31962-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction Short stories PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 52548 52555 2024-09-13T12:33:38.388696 2023-09-14T06:44:05.341127 text/html text/html 48827 2010-04-12T06:28:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 132921 2010-04-12T06:28:44 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 125119 2024-09-13T12:33:40.278674 application/epub+zip 124175 2024-09-13T12:33:38.779694 application/epub+zip 59038 2024-09-13T12:33:38.574690 application/epub+zip 159547 2024-09-13T12:33:41.663675 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 151830 2024-09-13T12:33:40.070677 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 87736 2022-09-14T15:47:35.848061 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 44553 44450 2024-09-13T12:33:38.230706 2023-09-14T06:44:05.203116 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 44464 2010-04-12T06:28:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17158 2010-04-12T06:28:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18627 2024-09-13T12:33:41.799673 application/rdf+xml 24632 2024-09-13T12:33:38.642675 image/jpeg 4190 2024-09-13T12:33:38.607727 image/jpeg 140223 2024-09-13T12:33:38.414676 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