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The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
3.0

Not one of Asmiov's best books, but it's certainly a worthy read. The plantation and slavery metaphor is handled adroitly enough, though it may have been seen as more ham handed at the time (especially since Asimov never bothers with physical descriptions anywhere else). The science is outdated but wasn't completely impossible to believe at the time of publication, so we can cut him some slack there. It's actually a pretty good thriller - if it were written now, or had been in the 80's, it would have been restructured in sequence of events and would feel 'tighter' by today's standards.