Tales of Alvin Maker · Book 1
Seventh Son
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 241
- ISBN-13
- 9780312930196
- Type
- novel
About this book
Seventh Son opens Orson Scott Card's alternate-history frontier fantasy in January 1987, introducing Alvin -- a seventh son of a seventh son born with the rare gift of 'making' -- as the supernatural Unmaker begins hunting him from infancy. Set in a reimagined early-19th-century America where folk magic is ordinary, it runs 241 pages.
Its place in Tales of Alvin Maker
Seventh Son is book 1 in the Tales of Alvin Maker series. It is followed by Red Prophet. 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 9780312930196