On a forested planet far from Earth, a company run by the iron-willed Dr. Haenlingen depends on the forced labour of the native inhabitants, a fact hidden from the citizens of the Confederation. One of the young men whose job is to keep the slaves docile begins to doubt the work, and the colony’s careful silence is threatened from inside.
A pointed 1963 novel that uses science fiction to examine the psychology of slavery. Download the free EPUB.