Red Prophet
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| Author | Orson Scott Card |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Tales of Alvin Maker |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy |
| Publisher | Tor Books |
| Publication date | 1988 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 311 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-312-93043-7 |
| Preceded by | Seventh Son |
| Followed by | Prentice Alvin |
Red Prophet (1988) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by Orson Scott Card. It is the second book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the Seventh son of a seventh son. Red Prophet was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1989.
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The second book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series, Red Prophet is about Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son (with all the special powers that conveys in Card's fantasy world), Lolla-Wossiky, a troubled whisky "Red" who has reformed and grown into the "Prophet" Tenskwa-Tawa, and Ta-Kumsaw, Lolla-Wossiky's older brother.
While it is a self-contained story, the book continues and develops many of the themes touched on in the first book. When Alvin Miller and his older brother Measure travel to the place of his birth (where Alvin is expected to become apprenticed to the Hattrack River blacksmith) the two brothers are captured by 'Reds' (Native Americans) and caught up into a plot with ramifications on the entire future of America involving the Prophet, Ta-Kumsaw, William Henry Harrison, and even Napoleon and La Fayette.
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