Rating: Summary: A great book from a great writer Review: This book showcases Orson Scott Card's almost exclusively unique ability to create a compelling new world and populate it with interesting characters within a story that clearly reasonates in the mind of the reader. The result is a thoroughly entertaining creative experience that ignites the imagination - something that seems refreshingly alien yet reassuringly familiar. If you enjoy fantasy/sci-fi then you'll love this literary gem.
Rating: Summary: Amazing Review: This is a mindblowing epic that gets your creative juices flowing. Very imaginitive, good for any fantasist or science fictionist.
Rating: Summary: Card at his most imaginative and exotic Review: This is one of Card's early works that it appears he would like to suppress or never admit to having written. While he may not be proud of it as a piece of "literature" it is surely a great piece of Sci-Fi/Fantasy. I have long felt that it ranks with Card's other, really "exotic" stories (Wyrms, Hart's Hope) as his most artful and creative product. And Lanik Mueller is surely the most bipolar hero you'll ever encounter. Read it, you'll like it.
Rating: Summary: This book needs to be reprinted Review: This is one of my favorite books... but so far I have not been able to find another copy of it anywhere. Every where I turn I am thwarted. I love this book and all of the others by Card... That is about all I can say
Rating: Summary: amazing Review: Treason was the first book I read by O.S.Card, and I was blown away. It's one of those stories that I just wanted to jump into and become a character. For me it is an excellent satire of the beligerant ways of humans, and it keeps me guessing about how life could be in parallel dimensions. I read Ender's Game shortly after and was not let down at all. Card is a one-in-a-lifetime author who captures the adventurous and wonderous sides of his readers
Rating: Summary: 5 stars Review: What can one say of a 5-star-book? After the first sentences (the best beginning I have ever read) I could not stop reading on. The end is really an end, it gives the answers one expects. What is between makes it the best sci-fi book I know, even better than the Ender saga.
Rating: Summary: The best & brightest of mankind have never been so miserable Review: Yet another great book from Card.
Card paints a primitive ugly scary world, that starts by sounding like Cordweiners A planet called Hell. Though later our hero(in) discovers that all the original prisoners were the elite of man-kind. Then strange magic-like powers abound, and at the end, it even somehow makes perfect sense together. In between our hero faces the usual cruel decisions Card likes to face his hero with, though this hero is too mean to be a saint.
Add some paternal love, some romantic love, fights, a few twists and sheep.
In short:
Serious "fantasy like" sci-fi + a touch of horror. Extremly readable. Will give you something to think & dream about
Rating: Summary: An early work in Card's inimitable style. Review: _Treason_ shows evidence of many of the concerns that Card would come to have in his later novels-- self-determination, actualization of innate ability, the morality of violent self-defense versus the morality of pacifism, and the destiny of brilliant youths. Set on a planet where the best radical minds of a generation were exiled without iron, Treason uses science fiction as a background for a thoughtful and entertaining look at all of the aforementioned issues. In this novel, Card hasn't yet developed the ability to set his worlds as realistically as he will in other novels-- hence my giving it 'only' four stars. Treason has some elements that really stretch the reader's credulity and are too obviously allegorical.
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