The Cloak and the Staff
"The Cloak and the Staff" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Gordon R. Dickson. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1981.
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| Author | Gordon R. Dickson |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novelette |
| Publisher | Analog Science Fiction |
| Publication date | 1980 |
Plot summary
A skilled human translator tries to balance his desire to stay alive with his need to lash out at Earth's hulking overlords, who treat humans as cattle, or at best, pets.
gollark: I, for one, like having a functional modern economy, although there are large and significant problems.
gollark: A lot of the time "revolutions" seem to just be because one smaller group wants to impose a view which "everyone totally agrees with" on everyone else.
gollark: You can do that nonviolently. I suspect most people do not actually feel the same way, so it won't do much.
gollark: Governments are national security issues because they do stupid things.
gollark: Probably trying to prevent them meddling with *law* would be good (somehow...) but I feel like not protecting their stuff at all would introduce extremely large problems.
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