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** To be fair, he does say in the postscript for the third book that he wanted to write about a space empire that was a "hostile nation"; he's not trying to defend their ethics, just describe them.
*** It is still worth mentioning that they are viewed as such in-universe by some of their subjects, especially when compared to their enemies, the conformist United Mankind.
* ''The Gardeners from Orion'' is an interesting subversion. It's an interesting [[
* The brilliant short story ''High Yield Bondage'' is about some aliens that land on Earth with a broken ship. To repair it, they need to improve Earth's technology to the point where we can make them the parts they need. So, they start {{spoiler|"inventing" and selling stuff, creating dummy corporations, and basically end all wars and improve the standard of living to where no one is poor and we are terraforming Mars and colonizing the Solar System. The story ends where they get the parts they need, and contact their boss, who then bitches at them for "ruining" the [[Noble Savage]] human culture}}.
* The ''Tuf Voyaging'' by [[George RR Martin]] is a series of short stories where a benevolent "advanced" human was helping an overpopulated normal human world. First he helped them grow more food using brilliant genetic engineering, then helped them clean up some pollution using the same tech. When he came back in 5 years, and saw that things were even more overpopulated and polluted, he decided to release a bug that sterilized all the humans on that planet. That is, only about 1 in a 100 people could have children. Given that it's written by no other than George R.R. Martin of [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] fame, there's rather more than is seems from a first glance.
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