Citizen of the Galaxy

Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book remind me of the biblical account of Joseph. Which brings up the age-old question where do science fiction authors get their ideas?

Doing some research, Heinlein said he was inspired by Rudyard Kipling. I made the comparison with the biblical account of Joseph because of the similarities. Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and he passed from owner to owner until he became the slave of the Pharaoh and later on became an important person... the second in command of all of Egypt.

The main character of Heinlein was sold into slavery at a very young age was also passed from owner to owner and with time he was the heir of space ship
construction company.

The sub genre of this type of science fiction story is called juvenile, I guess today it is known as young adult science fiction like The hunger Games or Divergent.

It is a good story and it is entertaining I would definitely recommend it to young adults you do not have wonton immorality that you would see in today's modern science fiction

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