title: Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker 2
author:  Orson Scott Card 
description: This second volume of the "Tales of Alvin Maker" revolves around the hero of "Seventh Son", young Alvin Miller. Orson Scott won the Hugo and Nebula award two years running for his novels "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead". "Hatrack River" won the 1987 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella.
zlib_text: TALES
  OF ALVIN
  MAKER
  ORSON SCOTT
  CARD
  The Tales of Alvin Maker:
  Book One: Seventh Son (1987)
  Book Two: Red Prophet (1988)
  Book Three: Prentice Alvin (1989)
  Book Four: Alvin journeyman (1996)
  Book Five: Master Alvin (1998)
  In the Tales of Alvin Maker series, an alternate-history view of an
  America that never was, Orson Scott Card postulated what the world might have
  been like if the Revolutionary War had never happened, and if folk magic
  actually worked.
  America is divided into several provinces, with the Spanish and French
  still having a strong presence in the New World. The emerging scientific
  revolution in Europe has led many people with 'talent', that is, magical
  ability, to emigrate to North America, bringing their prevailing magic with
  them. The books chronicle the life of Alvin, the seventh son of a seventh son
  - a fact that marks him right away as a person of great power. It is Alvin's
  ultimate destiny to become a Maker, an adept being of a kind that has not
  existed for a thousa