Treason

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The scene where Mwaba-Mawa basically rapes Lanik was weird. In fact, all of the parts where Lanik was basically raped were weird. Now, there is definitely a point to the story. But-- and here genre fans will gasp in horror-- the point is not in the science fiction. Card is (I can only assume deliberately) playing extremely fast and loose with the consistency of the story, and with all of the realistic and scientific aspects. The point is character, and specifically (because this is a Card novel) one character, the hero, Lanik Mueller. As much as it has the trappings of science fiction, Treason really uses its setting more like fantasy or even magical realism, to explore Lanik's character and identity as he asks the questions, "who am I?" and "what kind of life should I live?". Treason’, by Berlie Doherty, is a wonderful, well-written story and she once again succeeds in producing a book that, along with being entertaining, has much to offer younger readers in terms of learning about history. I will say, Charlie Cox plays a pretty good part. He's not an outstandingly brilliant actor by any stretch of the imagination, but he's well cast and does his best with the script etc.

In the beginning, they talk about how Lanik Mueller, the protagonist (I think), is a Rad and how Rads work, they bring up another fascinating point: hormones would likely change how Rads grow and mature. What better way to explain that than puberty? It's been years since I last read this, but I remember it very fondly. While it has some flaws, it is a really fun adventure story of a young man discovering himself & his world. And what a world! It's a very cool concept that Card has come up with. Part of the fun of the book is discovering this, so I won't say more in my review, except that it is a really interesting look at fanaticism & the evolution of societies. I loved the idea of blowing up the Ambassadors & removing temptation. Suddenly all communication with the [false] gods was removed & all men were free to find their way to their own destiny.See currently unavailable books See my books that are unfortunately currently out of print, and also not currently available as ebooks or audiobooks. Treason is a revisitation of Card's second novel, A Planet Called Treason. By his own count, he has re-written about 10% of the novel, maintaining the plot and simply refining the storytelling. It does seem very evidently to be one of his earlier works, but I believe that works to the story's advantage. He says in his author's note at the beginning that Author Luke Palmer introduces his new book, Play (Firefly Press) about four boys growing up together, the challenges, the friendships, and what hap... You know what, I skimmed over Saranna a lot. Let me just say this: I have NO IDEA what is so appealing about her other than she's pretty and supposedly loyal. But I think there's like three different cases where they're in Ku Kuei and he sees her having sex with people.

The scene when Mwaba-Mawa (I think that's how you spell it (I really hate stupid names. Looking at you Brandon Sanderson.)) shows Lanik how to "drop" was just weird... Tracy Ifeachor as Dede Alexander, an agent of the CIA and a friend of Maddy investigating Adam and Kara. In Treason I’ve tried very hard to create a sense of the Tudor period in my description of life, clothes, food, the way people behave etc. Read through a chapter and look for signs of Tudor times in it.Before I talk any more about the story, I should also bring up that this is technically not written in the OSC voice you're familiar with. It's in first-person... This is a totally personal preference, but I don't like his first-person voice, especially because I have basically no idea if I'm supposed to like Lanik Mueller. He's smarmy, whiny, and can't seem to figure out if he likes his breasts or not. One MORE case of stupid rape was the two guys somewhere. The rape happened so suddenly that I forgot where Lanik even was. May have been a beach? Desert maybe? Lanik just smiles at these two guys and in a blink they're groping him and crap and it's all just really weird. But I don't feel any sympathy for him this time because first, he expected it to happen, and second, the scene happened so that he can show how manly he actually is. Yeah, he just kills the two guys. Cool I guess? From a magic pen that can hear caller's on a phone, to inept highly trained professionals that can't keep an eye on a boats hatch, there's all manner of idiocy in this show. The story itself follows a young man named Lanik, who's family have the genetic capacity to rapidly regenerate from almost any wound...though he possesses a particularly hyper-reactive version of this ability that, triggered at the end of adolescence, results in his impending doom as a multiple useless-limb growing hermaphrodite. (And you thought YOUR puberty was rough.) It is, I think, this very simplicity which makes Treason work better than some of his more mature works. In some of his later work, I sometimes feel Card is working hard to show us how brilliant he is (and he is), how well he understands the human condition. Though I love a good deal of his work, at times it comes across as heavy-handed. Treason feels much more intuitive and far more subtle, and this is what makes it work, I think.

As the government’s national archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, The National Archives hold over 1,000 years of the nation’s records for everyone to discover and use. Figure out, okay!? Want to rub your breasts because it feels good? Cool. Just say it and move on. It gets really awkward when you tell me that you think you're supposed to feel motherly or that you're apparently irresistible to men. It's just weird and annoying. She cleverly creates an entirely plausible string of events, taking the protagonist on a rollercoaster ride through the sorrow of bereavement and rejection, the short-lived elation of life in the royal court and the desperation of being a fugitive. All told, it was a very interesting exploration of humanity. Not perfect, but certainly thought provoking, just what the best SF is all about. To be clear, this was his next book after Ender's Game. So... "traditionally" isn't really fair because he was still discovering who he was as an author, and that's fine. I can appreciate this for the story it tells about the author.Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad" -- radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard metals -- or the means of escape -- iron is power in the race to build a spacecraft.

But as I've noticed with Orson Scott Card, he takes this as an opportunity to prove that he's edgy. I can't stand this with ANY author, and that counts with Brandon Sanderson too. Please remember, I love OSC's work. I just can't deny that he seems to jump at the chance to talk about excretion, sex, et cetera. And it's just really uncomfortable most of the time. This revision is not an attempt to tell the story of Lanik Mueller as if I were writing it for the first time in 1988--that novel would be half again as long as this, with much more time spent on developing other characters and relationships. Instead, this edition retains the simplicity of the original, the story of one young man's discovery and transformation of his world and of himself. Treason' Review: Netflix's Derivative New Spy Series". The Hollywood Reporter. 23 December 2022. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022 . Retrieved 28 December 2022.Determined to be useful to his father for what little time he has left, Lanik sets off on a covert mission to spy on one of the neighboring families, which seems poised for uninhibited conquest of much of the planet. From there...Lanik's quest becomes more of an Odyssey. And one that traverses the manipulations of time, matter, and perceptions of reality. Anyway... Mwaba-Mawa later tries to have sex with him. There's a bit where she gropes him and the texture of her skin changes to be rougher and manlier on cue, but that never went anywhere so WHY DID THAT HAPPEN? Oh, and what is one of the considered solutions to this problem? TO CUT OFF - wait, I need you to understand the logic here - to TAKE HIS DAGGER AND CHOP OFF HIS - wait... do you not get it? HE WAS GONNA CHOP OFF HIS JUNK. England was a Catholic nation, and the head of the Church was the Pope in Rome. All church services were held in Latin. Henry VIII did not believe in Protestantism, and he believed in marriage for life. He was a devout Catholic. But then he fell in love with Anne Boleyn. The Pope would not allow him to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and so Henry VIII broke away from Rome and declared himself to be Supreme Head of the Catholic Church in England, so he could do as he pleased. Yikes! I'm a fan of Orson Scott Card. He's easily my favorite author. He's often talked about as an egotistical jerk who you just shouldn't bother with. That, or he's just dismissed as crazy. (Thanks Hank Green. You really know how to make an argument on a hot-button issue.) I've had the pleasure of meeting him and he was just the sweetest guy imaginable. I've also read The Worthing Saga and The Folk of the Fringe and I thought they were absolutely phenomenal. He's made it very clear that he doesn't write "Mormon fiction". And in the cases when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is brought up in his fiction, he's often quite satirical. This can be seen in the cases of Ender's mother, or Deaver Teague, and many others. A In Treason I’ve taken the liberty of combining two real people into one made up one! (I stole their names. This is what creative writing is all about!) Lord Percy and Lord Howard were noblemen in King Henry’s time. Henry Percy was intended to marry Anne Boleyn, before Henry VIII fell in love with her.