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'Cause it was...over? I liked Treason well enough, and I think it was developed about as far as it could go, plotwise (though I wouldn't have been averse to the total rewrite OSC mentioned he would have liked to have done). What were your ideas for expansion? What would you like to see told?
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I remember kind of wanting a prequel, but I kind of like the history of stuff. I liked the Silmarillon and I read all the appendices in LOTR.
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Treason was a great novel, but it wasn't a mature novel. Unfortunately, it is out of print, though easy to find on ebay.
If you are an OSC enthusiast, then the book is a lot of fun. You can see that Card plays around with some ideas that later get developed much further in books like Alvin Maker and Homecoming.
But if you're not an OSC fan, then the book is not quite good enough. The societies on Treason are too unbelievable. The plot is too fantatastic.
The book doesn't have a sequel, but it certainly has many continuations, in many things that OSC writes.
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I always felt that Treason was a re-write away from being top-notch. The improvements between A Planet Called Treason and Treason were enough to make me feel like it was almost there. I don't think I had the same problems with it that Ariel had but there was just something in the back of my head saying...I don't know. Even so, this is one of my favorites of OSC (if you count how many times I have read each of his books, it is right up there with Worthing and Folk of the Fringe ).
p.s. I know. I wanted to know more about Saranna and the political machinations of Mueller. Maybe it just wasn't that kind of book. that's alright.
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I felt pretty much the way Ariel does about Treason, but he put it much better than I ever could. I felt like it would be a great book for any other author, but for OSC it was only so-so. Imagine my surprise when I mentioned that here and found out it was a lot of people's favorite book!
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A Planet Called Treason is the first OSC book I ever read, and I still think it's one of the best. The universe he created was unlike anything I'd ever read before. This caught my eye more than anything. He wasn't just re-writing Lord of the Rings, or some other classic novel, with new characters. He came up with something new and unique.
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A Planet Called Treason was my first OSC book, also, except I didn't realize it was OSC until after I read Ender's Game and said, "Hey wait, that's the same guy." Anyway, several years were in between that and Treason, and i couldn't pick out the specific changes, but I just got a better feeling of story and flow while I read Treason. I own both, btw. Posts: 1090 | Registered: Oct 2003
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I liked Treason well enough, and I think it was developed about as far as it could go, plotwise (though I wouldn't have been averse to the total rewrite OSC mentioned he would have liked to have done). What were your ideas for expansion? What would you like to see told?
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