The World Menders

Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny' read the motto that hung on every wall of the base. But Cultural Survey trainee Cedd Farrari sent as an observer to Branoff IV, was beginning to have his doubts about the value of non-interference in alien societies. Appalled by the plight of the starving, primitive Olz, he makes up his mind to lead them in revolt against their masters, the aristocratic Rascz - only to find that the situation is more dangerous and complicated than he imagined.