... Regarding education and aid as involving the native population, the initial shipments of teachers, investigators and experts in xenopsychology have enabled the occupation force to begin a full educational program for the benefit of the natives. This program has been accepted by the natives without delay and without any untoward incidents, and reports to the contrary are assumed to have been initiated by disaffected personnel. The program of education in a democratic and workable form of government for these natives is, and must remain, one of the shining examples of the liberative effects of Confederation doctrine and government, and should provide a valuable precedent in future cases.... ... Reports that the profits of the major business of this world, since the introduction of automated machinery and experts for the repair and upkeep thereof, have decreased to the vanishing point should not be taken as serious: this is assumed to be merely a temporary hardship due to the transfer workload from the natives to the automated structure.... Since the only alternative is the placement of the workload on enslaved natives of this world, the temporary rise in taxes due to the loss on essential product profit should be taken as a needed and welcome sacrifice in the name of liberty by the peoples of the Confederation.... ... A list of further urgent materials, together with a list of specialties now urgently required in order to maintain full production here, and a revised schedule of budgetary requirements to include these additional requisitions, is hereby appended.... * * * * * THE MASTERS _johnny dodd:_ he had everything a man could want on Fruyling's World--except freedom from the horror of being there. _dr. haenlingen:_ icy, reserved, the architect of the system that kept men on top and aliens enslaved. _norma:_ warm and human, she was Dodd's one hope for salvation. THE SLAVES _cadnan:_ he did what he was told ... until the Masters told him to die. _marvor:_ the first of his race to have an independent idea--an idea that was dangerous and deadly. _dara:_ green and reptilian, but beautiful enough to inspire Cadnan to the slave world's worst crime. As the space fleets of an outraged Terran Confederation close in on the outlaw planet of Fruyling's World, the destinies of slave and master meet explosively, and from the shock of battle and its aftermath come an unexpected and awesome conclusion. PYRAMID PRESENTS ROBERT BLOCH BOGEY MEN (F-839) A PYRAMID BOOK 40¢ Cover painting by Jack Gaughan End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Slave Planet, by Laurence Janifer