Ethical Issues
The duology is full of good action, but the hero does think about what he does. The action raises a plenty of moral questions — the title, "Stars are cold toys" isn't occasional, but forms a sort of common mood of the duology...
It's curious, that Pyotr (an orphan) was brought up by his grandfather as an "ethical standard", i.e. a person who would be able to decide for the whole Earth if needed...
One of the questions arise when Pyotr is fighting against Humans having an alien ally... He realizes that he can't allow an alien to fight against Humans with all its capabilities... As it was nicely formulated, "One can't engage a being of an alien race in guarding a concentration camp."
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