The Muellers, through generations of eugenics, have the ability to heal at an accelerated speed and regrow body parts naturally. The protagonist of the book is Lanik Mueller, heir apparent to the Mueller family kingdom. Due to the metal-deficiency on Treason, nations are forced to obtain it through a system of barter using teleportation devices known as Ambassadors. Through the ages, these descendants have formed nations which warred and allied with one another to gain advantages over their rivals in the race to build a starship. The novel centers on the descendants of these anti-democratic thinkers who remain imprisoned on the planet. The premise of this novel is the banishment to the seemingly metal-poor planet Treason of a group of people who attempted to create rule by an intellectual elite. The short story collection Capitol had been published in January. Martin's Press.Ī Planet Called Treason was Card's second published novel-length science fiction story. After being heavily revised, and growing roughly 50 pages longer, the book was republished under the title Treason (1988), also but only by St. It was originally published by St Martin's Press and Dell Publishing Co. A Planet Called Treason (1979) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card about a radical regenerative named Lanik who is banished from his kingdom and travels to different regions of the planet, discovering the powers of the people living there.
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