CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY is another of my favorite science fiction books.
Written in 1957 as a juvenile book for Scribner's, this book deals with themes of slavery and freedom as a young slave boy who only knows his name as Thorby moves from planet to spaceship to planet as he grows up. And along the way he discovers that even after he is no longer a slave in the literal sense of the word, he is forced to give up a measure of his freedom in order to meet his adult responsibilities. A very complex book that was marketed to teenage boys.
My own relationship to this book is complex too. It was a gift to me from some friends of the family when I was about 12 or 13. I've probably re-read it every 5 years or so since then and I find that as I grow up more and more, I understand its complexities in new ways.
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