A Planet Called Treason
by Orson Scott Card · first published 1979
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Plot summary[edit] 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 novel centers on the descendants of these anti-democratic thinkers who remain imprisoned on the planet. 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. Due to the metal-deficiency on Treason, nations are forced to obtain it through a system of barter using teleportation devices known as Amba
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I love Ender's Game but my opinion of it has dropped over the years. His A Planet called Treason however affected me pretty deeply, and I still read it from time to time.
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on “"Ender's Game" movie faces a boycott” ↗…Big U to be republished, saying that the only thing worse than people reading the book was paying that much to read it.") Or Sundiver being a much weaker book than the rest of the Uplift series. Or A Planet Called Treason by Orson Scott Card (which was even worse when I reread it as an adult). Old Man's War was Scalzi's first "real" story... one that he had in the back of his mind to write in his college years. He has…
on “2026 Hugo Awards” ↗…by Jo Walton: "My C shelves begin, controversially, with Orson Scott Card, who was one of my favourite authors for a long time but whom I can no longer read. I started reading him with Hot Sleep and A Planet Called Treason in the early 80s, and I stopped in 1997, so I have read absolutely everything up to then and nothing since. I stopped reading him because he said in his book on how to write that the best way to get readers…
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