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* Discussed at length in the ''[[The Tough Guide to Fantasyland]]''.
* Whole chapters of this in ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]''. This is the [[Author Filibuster|Baroque]] [[Doorstopper|Cycle]], so 'whole chapters' doesn't mean much.
* In ''[[Les Misérables]]'', the main character is sentenced to this [[Backstory|in the beginning]], but it is never described, probably because [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|the author]] didn't know about the conditions. This has a bit to do with confusing naming. Valjean was imprisoned in the [
* Uhtred, the [[Anti-Hero]] of Bernard Cornwell's ''Saxon Chronicles'', spends some time as an oar-slave. Instead of the traditional [[Scary Black Man]] friend, he instead finds himself a crazy badass Irishman. They keep each other angry enough to survive.
* The hero of [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Chalion|The Curse of Chalion]]'' has just made his way home after surviving a stint as a galley slave; it turns out to be fairly critical to the plot.
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