![]() ![]() But the real enemies of everyone on Treason, Lanik learns after many trials and adventures, are the Andersons (politics), who've perfected a method of projecting illusions so convincing that all are fooled into submission without realizing it. The Ku Kuei (philosophy) have acquired the ability to slow or speed time. ![]() The Schwartzes have learned how to commune with the rocks (geology ancestors) and can perform all kinds of lithopathic miracles. How? Well, their ancestor was a physicist, so they've traded the secret of faster-than-light travel. The tree-dwelling, conquering Nkumai have recently acquired much iron, he learns. Lanik Mueller, descendant of a genetic-whiz who discovered the secret of regeneration, turns out to be a "rad"-one in whom the regeneration runs wild thus horribly disfigured, he must seek salvation in the world at large. Now they trade the refined products of their skills through Ambassadors-teleport machines-for iron (Treason is metal-poor) with which to build spaceships. Many generations ago, a band of the intellectual elite attempted to take over the galactic government and were exiled to planet Treason for their plans. A rewrite and expansion of Card's early novel A Planet Called Treason (1979), about the descendants of gifted exiles struggling to escape the planet on which they have been confined. ![]()
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