Comparison To Other Works
Like many of Card's works, this story is a metaphor. It looks at, among other things, the desires of the flesh, and how succumbing to them is dangerous.
The story bears some similarities to other books by Orson Scott Card. A Planet Called Treason also took place on a planet without ore. Patience is a child turned savior, similar to other protagonists in Card's works like Ender Wiggin, Alvin Maker and Lanik Mueller. The semi-conscious self-modifying organism native to Imakulata (which becomes, eventually, Unwyrm) resembles the Descolada from Speaker for the Dead.
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