Figure out, okay!? Want to rub your breasts because it feels good? Cool. Just say it and move on. It gets really awkward when you tell me that you think you're supposed to feel motherly or that you're apparently irresistible to men. It's just weird and annoying. The setting is that of a prison planet, inhabited by family-based clans that have all been exiled--paying penance a thousand years after a failed uprising. Each family has advanced dramatically in a particular area of specialty ranging from physics, to philosophy, to genetics, and offer their particular/peculiar services in exchange for an element that is critical to their eventual escape, but not conveniently native to the planet – Iron. It was also published as an audiobook, which is unfortunately no longer available, although you may be able to find secondhand copies. In this delightful novel, the author weaves an intriguing story around key historical events that occurred during Henry VIII’s reign, perceived from the point of view of a court member whose family fall foul of the Reformation. 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.

If you've read any Orson Scott Card books besides Ender's Game, you know to expect crazy things to happen. But Treason-- a reworking of the second novel Card ever wrote-- takes things to a whole new level of crazy. How crazy? Well, the hero is a mutant Highlander hermaphrodite Nazi prince, and that's before he learns earth-bending from Peter Pan. Also, the whole Nazi thing is basically only brought up in the first chapter, and is never mentioned again or otherwise resolved. Not to mention that the hero and every other character in the story are the descendants of elitist rebels marooned on a planet and forced to fight medieval wars over the scarcest resource-- iron. And the ending, which I won't spoil, gets even crazier. You can't make this stuff up... except apparently if you're Orson Scott Card. 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!The story was told from a first person future perspective. This was probably the novel's biggest fault. This perspective naturally leads you to piece together plot points that the reader has yet to see. Thus, outside of aspects of the universe that you haven't yet been introduced to, there is no way to surprise the reader. Determined to be useful to his father for what little time he has left, Lanik sets off on a covert mission to spy on one of the neighboring families, which seems poised for uninhibited conquest of much of the planet. From there...Lanik's quest becomes more of an Odyssey. And one that traverses the manipulations of time, matter, and perceptions of reality. 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 metals -- or the means of escape -- iron is power in the race to build a spacecraft. Thomas Howard was a very important nobleman in Henry VIII’s court. His niece was Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry. Usual UK delivery timescale (excluding custom prints) is between 5 and 7 working days from the date of dispatch. Please allow up to 14 working days for delivery. For custom print delivery pricing and timescales see below.

Charlie Cox as Adam Lawrence, an MI6 officer who becomes head of the organization after Angelis is poisoned. He is Maddy's husband and Kara's former lover. See currently unavailable books See my books that are unfortunately currently out of print, and also not currently available as ebooks or audiobooks. This terms class book related to the Tudor topic, really useful to help children conceptualise some of the main events during that era. In particular the church reform. It allows the reader to consider how emotive and life changing that event would have been for people at that time.Card currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.