The Thurdian Experiment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781098010683)

If scientists from another planet abducted you to study you like we study wildlife on Earth, what would you do?

What if while you were onboard, the ship was attacked by another alien group?

Would you trust your captors' assessment, that the other ship belonged to a hostile empire and your captors were the good guys?

Would you fight to protect the ship? To protect your abductors?

What would you do if for service rendered to the empire, you are granted a title and a whole continent to rule?

Would you accept even though it's a primitive planet? What if a stipulation is, you marry one of the scientists, an altered sapien--a cat woman? Or would you refuse the prince's gifts, snubbing an empire?

It's easy to rule a primitive planet...or is it?

Bows muskets, farm equipment... Oh yeah, dire wolves, saber cats, mammoth, cold winters, hot summer.

Then the galactic war comes to you.

Bows, swords, muskets, ray guns. Ray guns?

From class 2 primitive to class 1 modern overnight.

What would you do? Would you?