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A Slave is a Slave

H. Beam Piper · 1962

A 1962 science fiction story, first published in Analog, about envoys of the Galactic Empire annexing the lost colony planet Aditya, where a society of slave-owning masters rules an enslaved majority, forcing the newcomers to question their assumptions.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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