It sounds very much like native Americans who were taken back to Europe and shown off to Royal Courts as curiousities, although sneaking out like most typical 19 year old boys gets smitten by a girl. I wonder if they had a good estimation of Martian gravity when it was written as the transition to 1g would be quite a struggle to get aclimatised to after being born and raised in a lighter gravity environment.
Seems like a good collection of stories!!
It sounds very much like native Americans who were taken back to Europe and shown off to Royal Courts as curiousities, although sneaking out like most typical 19 year old boys gets smitten by a girl. I wonder if they had a good estimation of Martian gravity when it was written as the transition to 1g would be quite a struggle to get aclimatised to after being born and raised in a lighter gravity environment.
That might have been Cooper's intent. It was definitely a harsh critique of political usage of an innocent.