A Planet Called Treason Author:Orson Scott Card Lanik Mueller, heir of one of the richest families on the planet treason, is used to the occasional growth of an extra limb or organ; it is just surgically removed and his body heals within the hour. But when transsexual growth occurs- in his case a rather voluptuous set of breasts-he faces the fact that he has become a radical degenerative, and... more » a humiliated outcast in a nation where military exploits are of the first importance.
Three thousand years after the crime their forefathers committed against the republic the Families are subservient to a race of prison keepers with which each barters. The commodity: iron, with which an escape craft may be built....« less