Citizen of the Galaxy (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Heinlein
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Science fiction
- Subjects: Parents and children, Police, Psychology or psychologists, Slavery or slaves, Space flight or travel, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Adoption or adopted children, Orphans or orphanages, Citizenship, Boys, Space sciences
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Scribner's juvenile series took a giant leap in a new direction with Citizen of the Galaxy. Though the protagonist is a boy who comes of age in the novel, the point of view is much more adult (it was the only one of the juveniles to be serialized in Astounding Science Fiction), and the locale, for the first time in the series, is outside the earth's solar system. The world in which Thorby, the main character, grows up is much darker than any previously seen in Heinlein's fiction. The reader first sees Thorby in the dirty, decadent, savage streets of the spaceport...
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