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Description
Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad" -- radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh... and trade extra body parts to the Offworld oppressors for iron. For, on a planet without hard... read more
Summary
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... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Cast of Characters
- Lanik Mueller: Main character, heir apparent of the Mueller throne, radical regenerative.
- Ensel Mueller: Lanik's father, king of Mueller.
- Dinte Mueller: Lanik's brother, later was impersonated by a second Lanik Mueller (regrown from a loose organ) who had learned the powers of the "illuders".
- Helmut: Lanik's friend who discovers him dying in Schwartz, offering him help and curing him of his radical regenerative state.
- Mwabao Mawa: De facto ruler of the Nkumai, later found to be an "illuder".
- Saranna: The love of Lanik's life.
- Lord Barton: A Lord in Britton who helps Lanik learn of the "illuders."
- Glain: A man Lanik lives with for about a year.
- Man-Who-Fell-on-His-Ass: The first of the Ku Kuei Lanik met.
- Man-Who-Knows-It-All: A Ku Kuei who taught Lanik and Saranna how to control time.
- Percy Barton: Lord Barton's "son", actually an "illuder".
- Ruva: Ensel's wife.
- Vran: Glain's wife.
First Sentence
I've endured having four arms, an extra nose, and two hearts pumping away before the surgeon took me under his knife to cut away the excess.
Table of Contents
1. Mueller
2. Allison
3. Nkumai
4. Lanik and Lanik
5. Singer
6. Schwartz
7. Ensel
8. Ku Kuei
9. Jones
10. Britton
11. Gill
12. Anderson
13. Treason
14. Lanik in Mueller
15. Humping
Authors & Contributors
- Orson Scott Card (Author)
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