Treason

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Each set has between 25 and 40 ready-to-print activities and full planning. Some also have a full ActivPrimary flipchart too. Author Guy Bass introduces SCRAP, about one robot who tried to protect the humans on his planet against an army of robots. Now the humans need his... Not entirely what I was expecting, yet wholly original. Orson Scott Card's pacing pulls you along at a steady clip. The world-building is vast and lurid...as is the array of moral and ethical questions that are inevitably raised. The concept itself is dense. To me, it felt almost too much so to be contained by a single book. Due to the more medieval feel and semi-mystical elements, it also spent a good deal of time feeling more like a fantasy than a sci-fi. The attempted 'romantic' elements really didn't do anything for me, personally. I don't think their removal would have lessened the piece in any way.

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. As his second novel (revised version, like with " Hot Sleep") it is in some ways quite raw. The first third of the book was essentially transsexual erotic fiction. So if that was the bait, consider me hooked. I somehow don't think it was.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. Written in the soft science fiction tradition that feels almost more like magic than science, Card tells the tale of Lanik Mueller, the dispossessed heir of the powerful Mueller family, whose genetic legacy is the ability to heal from almost any wound. Lanik's exile sets him on a path to learning more about the planet Treason on which he lives, a resource-poor planet which serves as prison to the descendants of a cabal that committed unspeakable, despotic treason millennia ago. The descendants of each of the original exiles have developed particular talents--such as the Muellers' regenerative abilities--that allow them to survive on this planet or even to trade something valuable to the Offworlders in exchange for the iron which is scarce on Treason but which gives a distinct advantage to the families who possess it as they struggle for power against the other families. Lanik is forced to come to a greater understanding of his world--its peoples, its powers, its history--and a greater understanding of himself. I was particularly impressed with the way in which Doherty sprinkled in a significant amount of well-researched historical detail, without overlabouring the point and weighing the story down, thus rooting the events firmly in their historical setting. In my first foray into fiction other than "A Song of Ice and Fire" in a long while, I read " Treason" by Orson Scott Card a couple of days ago. A noteworthy event, believe you me.

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. WHAT? He freakin' groped the guy! HIS SON. And humiliates him in front of his jerk family. And to make matters stranger, Lanik wonders if because his dad did that because Lanik's attractive.Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy ( Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels ( Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry ( An Open Book), and many plays and scripts. Well, I make this sound like an interesting point, but the way the book does it is describing how Lanik has grown breasts and how there was another girl who grew a penis and used it to pee on people in protest to... something. It's just bizarre. A In fact there was a Henry Montagu who was executed for Treason in 1538! Will Montague isn’t related to him. In fact, he’s made up! Iron is the promise of freedom -- which may never be fulfilled as Lanik uncovers a treacherous conspiracy beyond his imagination.

Treason won the Sheffield Award, was shortlisted for the Federation of Children’s Book Groups Award and nominated for the Carnegie medal, as well as being shortlisted for many other awards, including the Blue Peter award. And I got a Blue Peter badge! Why did I write ‘Treason’? 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. 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...I felt I had to write Treason. I have always been fascinated by the Tudor period, especially during the reign of Henry VIII, who is himself one of the most fascinating kings in the history of England. England was scarcely out of the dark ages, yet on the brink of major exploration and discovery. Because of King Henry, the Church and the State were torn asunder forever. England was changing, and Treason sees the changes beginning. 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?". Very much a fun history lesson about the Tudors. You get transported to that time and find out about Henry VIII and his son, about the rich and poor divide. Also about religion at the time, how people were hanged for being Catholic.