Treason (32 page)

The manuscript of this novel was composed using WordPerfect on an ALR 386 computer with an NEC Multisync monitor; it was printed out on an Epson GQ-3500 using a Glyphix font, and duplicated on a Canon NP3525-EF
.

A Planet Called Treason
was my second novel to be published, and in the intervening years I have learned a little more about how a story can and should be told. The story of Lanik Mueller is one I still believe in, and in preparing this new edition, I left the plain tale alone. What has been changed is the manner of presentation—the tone, the pacing, the clarity. The result is that about ten percent of this volume is new material, with smaller revisions on almost every page. This revision was not an attempt to tell the story of Lanik Mueller as if I were writing it for the first time in 1988
—that
novel, which because of the pressure of time will never be written, would be half again as long as this, with much more time spent on developing other characters and relationships. Instead, this edition retains the simplicity of the original, the story of one young man’s discovery and transformation of his world and of himself.

I am grateful to my mother, Peggy Card, who retyped the entire novel from the Dell paperback edition, so that it could be on disk in WordPerfect format for my work on revision; to my wife, Kristine, who read the first draft of the new edition as it came out of the printer, helping me to make this a more clear, consistent, and effective novel than I could have produced on my own; and to my sister, Janice Card, for her excellent work on the revised and clarified map of Treason’s inhabited continent.