Treason--A Novel

November 3, 1988
After the success in recent years of his mature work (the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning SF diptych Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead and the excellent fantasy, Seventh Son ), the energetic Card returns to his 1979 second novel originally titled A Planet Called Treason . Limiting his rewriting to presentation rather than plot, Card is left with a good story that looks forward to his better work. Arrogant, sophisticated Lanik Mueller, scion of a clan that can regenerate their bodies, learns humility and much else during his exile in ``primitive'' lands. With his new powers, including the ability to cause earthquakes and drain lakes, he leads his countrymen in revolt against their conquerors. As in his later, better known work, Card provides a colorful dramatization of ethical issues and questions of identity against a backdrop of bizarrely fascinating races from the tree-dwelling Nkumai to the time-manipulating Ku Kuei.

March 15, 2019
Campbell's latest submarine thriller (following Blackmail, 2017) examines how a coup in Russia could lead to WWIII. The Russian president learns of a rogue plan to infiltrate Eastern Europe utilizing technology that will render ineffective any effort by the U.S. or its allies to stop the takeover. He orders the scheme to be abandoned, but that sets off a coup that puts the president on the run. With the help of a U.S. government official, a plan is put together in which a SEAL team will lead an operation designed to restore order in Russia and put the former president back in office. Campbell has crafted a marvelous series that realistically portrays life in the military, in general, and on board a submarine, in particular. An involving ensemble cast more than supports the riveting premise in this fine military thriller. Campbell is definitely a comer in the genre.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)