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Title	:	Red Prophet (Tales of Alvin Maker #2)
Author	:	Orson Scott Card
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 311 pages
Published	:	July 15th 1992 by Tor Fantasy (first published January 28th 1988)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction. Alternate History. Historical. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

Red Prophet (Tales of Alvin Maker #2) Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 311 pages

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Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card is the sequel to Card’s 1987 novel Seventh Son. Like Ender's Shadow, the changed perspective sequel to Card’s masterpiece Ender's Game, Card demonstrates his great ability to tell a story from more than one vantage and can even expand this re-telling into another book. Red Prophet continues the alternate American history began in Seventh Son and this time largely from the viewpoint of Lalawasike, known to most readers of American history as The Prophet, brother to Tecumseh. William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Lafayette and even Napoleon also figure into the revisionist tale of the time before the battle of Tippecanoe. As good a job as Card does at characterization, really very good in fact, building complexities into characters that at first seemed flat, the best part of this book, and likely the high water marks of the series, remains Card’s wonderfully imaginative alternate history of America. This vision provides a soapbox upon which Card shares with his readers what he thinks is best in the heart of America and how things could be better. Just like in Seventh Son, like him or hate him, at the end of the day Card tells a good story and Red Prophet is fun to read.

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Original Title:	Red Prophet
ISBN:	0812524268 (ISBN13: 9780812524260)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Tales of Alvin Maker #2
Characters:	Alvin Maker
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1989), Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (1988), Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (1989), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee (1989)

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Ratings: 3.79 From 19467 Users | 508 Reviews

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It's a strange thing, but I've owned a copy of this book since my university days, and I'd obviously assumed that I'd read the book having previously rated it. However, once I came to read it again I realised that I'd not read it before at all. Quite why I'd managed to own an entire trilogy for nearly twenty years without reading beyond the first one is a mystery. Red Prophet is the second in the original Alvin Maker trilogy like Piers Anthony it seems that Card struggles to put a lid on a

Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card is the sequel to Cards 1987 novel Seventh Son. Like Ender's Shadow, the changed perspective sequel to Cards masterpiece Ender's Game, Card demonstrates his great ability to tell a story from more than one vantage and can even expand this re-telling into another book. Red Prophet continues the alternate American history began in Seventh Son and this time largely from the viewpoint of Lalawasike, known to most readers of American history as The Prophet, brother to

I had a hard time at the beginning of this book. But once I really got into it a couple of chapters, I really liked it. It's very Fictional History, but has a great story to tell. And for all you LDS readers out there. It's got a lot of BOM stories going on. I thought some of that was funny (even though I don't think he intended it to be).I'll probably go back and read Seventh Son again because it's been so long. If I'm going to read the series I want to make sure I'm clear on the story line.

Wow this story is just getting better! It is incredibly interesting to see the way the 'reds' did things, so different than the way that the 'whites' did... So much pain and suffering, all because of a few. I am very curious about the 'visitor', and the little hints that the book leaves behind. I absolutely adore Taleswapper more and more. Alvin is just adorable and I'm happy to see his evolution as a character. One more awesome thing is how it inserts historical characters and contexts, and

I liked the first book the Alvin Maker series, Seventh Son well enough for its folksy look at a young alternative America, filled with homespun magic knacks and big families dreaming even bigger of a better life. In Red Prophet, we get to see the flipside of the white man's knackery compared to those of the red man. It's a fascinating portrait of good versus evil, drawn along the fault lines of selfishness, ambition, misplaced good intentions, ignorance, and principle. The characters in the

I generally enjoy the heck out of this author so this was a real disappointment. Two stars is generous. The racial dividers in this story are awful to the point of ridiculous. What's worse is that characters that I genuinely enjoyed in the first book are twisted so that they fit in to said racial divisions for story purposes. Not a very enjoyable read for me.

It's a shame that there are so few good alternate history books that I have been able to find. This one, Red Prophet is a prime example. The second part in the popular Alvin Maker series, it explores an alternate early 19th century America in which Oliver Cromwell's Puritanical revolution succeeded in the long run and frontier folk magic works. So far, so good. I really enjoy the historical details that went into this work, the stories that get slipped in about Benjamin Franklin, George