Larry Niven - A Gift From Earth

Niven's books are generally pretty "sci-fi" which is why I particularly like him. Over the years he has also written a fair amount of sci-fi ethics specifically what it seems like dealing with off world colonies (Bladerunner on the brain) and settling them. This book was written in 1968 and basically deals with organ banks. The planet founders generally taking the colonist who misbehave, incarcerating them, farming their organs, and recycling these organs to keep the founders alive. Interesting that a book I read a while back (and seems to be somewhat similar), Building Harlequin's Moon by Niven and Brenda Cooper, in which a group of founders terraform a planet and allow colonist to be slaves in creating fuel so that the founders can continue on. Anywau the fate of the colony becomes wrapped up in a colonist Matt Keller who has a mutation where people seem to forget or overlook him. Sort of like a luck mutation (and I swear either Niven or perhaps Heinlein had a character who was bred to be lucky????). Anyway good read nothing great but if Niven wants a part of JK Rowling then he has her on "like a cloak of invisibility" i.e. someone describing Matt's ability.