Tales of Alvin Maker · Book 2
Red Prophet
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 311
- ISBN-13
- 9780812524260
- Type
- novel
About this book
Red Prophet followed a year later, in 1988, widening the series from Alvin's personal survival into the frontier's clashes over land and expansion. Growing to 311 pages, it's longer than the series opener.
Its place in Tales of Alvin Maker
Red Prophet is book 2 in the Tales of Alvin Maker series. It follows Seventh Son. It is followed by Prentice Alvin. See the full Tales of Alvin Maker reading order.
Set in an alternate frontier America where folk magic genuinely works, the Tales of Alvin Maker follows Alvin, a seventh son of a seventh son born with the rare gift of 'making' -- an intuitive power to shape and heal matter itself -- who is marked from birth as the target of an implacable supernatural enemy, the Unmaker, that wants him dead before he can grow into his full power. Card reimagines the early 19th-century United States (called here by different names, with historical figures appearing in altered…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780812524260