This description does not do it justice but this is the gist of it. To be honest, quite uncreative considering the book we're talking about here.Ī Planet Called Treason is a sci fi fantasy(with a lot more fantasy then sci fi but I digress)about a spunky non-consensual-transgender prince Lanik who is an actual cancer cell slowly getting beaten down by life as he travels around Space Australia(probably more hospitable than Australia though), exiled for being a radical regenerative (which is where the non-consensual-transgender and cancer cell part comes from). To generalize them, I would say they are either 'I read this x years ago and gotta say it made my childhood! 5/5 stars' or 'The book's fine but Orson Scott Card is the embodiment of dish soap getting in my eye so fuck this piece of shit! 2/5 stars'. I have read most of the reviews for this book.

This is not his crowning achievement by far. It’s some terrifying shit, and I’d probably be into it if the writing weren’t so god awful.

But god forbid you not fit a binary gender spectrum! Then you’re really a freak and are immediately cast out from society or sent to the pens - a place where they keep nonbinary people to harvest their limbs for the rest of their lives. The premise seems interesting - a culture of people who regenerate constantly and use their excess limbs for income. It’s 208 pages of racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and probably more isms that I didn’t get to because I put the book down mid-book and don’t intend to pick it back up. That being said, this book is not great guys. I even go so far as to never buy his books new on principal because I don’t want him getting a penny from me, even though his writing in the Ender series was great. I’ve liked other books by Orson Scott Card, but now as an adult I am well aware of his politics. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.Ĭard currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.įor further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.įor an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.īesides 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.Ĭard was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah.

Treason by orson scott card