Seventh Son (1987) - Locus Award winner, 1988 Hugo and World Fantasy Awards nominee, 1988.The famous Battle of Tippecanoe, in which both brothers were involved, occurs in the second book, Red Prophet, although its outcome is different from the historic one. His brother Tensquatawa is also featured, as “Tenskwa Tawa.” The characters in the book display features similar to the two famous Native Americans. Some of the historical figures are also accorded knacks, such as Benjamin Franklin (not a character, but repeatedly mentioned), who is said to have been a Maker, and Napoleon, who has the abilities both to make others adore and obey him and to see others’ great ambitions.įamous Native American Indian figures include Tecumseh, who is called “Ta Kumsaw” in the books. In addition, many of the historical figures are either presented as caricatures or bear only superficial resemblance to their historical persons. Real-world Mexico is an indigenous empire but is facing the prospect of war from the United States and European powers. Canada remains controlled by France while Florida and Nueva Barcelona (the real-world Louisiana) are colonized by Spain. An autonomous region known as Apalachee is centered on the Appalachian Mountains. are) known as the “Crown Colonies” was founded by the House of Stuart in exile. (New England is a colony of a Republican England where the Restoration never occurred thanks to Cromwell’s survival.) A monarchy on the southern portion of the Eastern Seaboard (where the real-world Carolinas, Georgia, etc. It displays much stronger Native American influence in its culture and society between New England and Virginia and extending westwards to Ohio. What was documented as the Colonial United States is divided in the books into a number of separate nations, including a smaller United States whose capital is Philadelphia and whose largest city is a Dutch-settled but increasingly English-speaking New Amsterdam. The primary divergence is the survival of Oliver Cromwell from the illness that killed him in reality, thanks to a physician secretly having a magical healing knack (Cromwell considered such knacks evil witchcraft). The stories involve a number of historical events and figures, but as a creation of alternate history. The stories take place on the American frontier in the early 19th century, a fantasy setting based on early American folklore and superstition, in a world in which folk magic actually works and manifests differently by race, and many Caucasian characters have a limited supernatural ability, or “knack,” to do some task to near-perfection, while Native Americans manifest nature magic and people of African ancestry can work voodoo. The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of six alternate history fantasy novels written by American novelist Orson Scott Card, published from 1987 to 2003 (with one more planned), that explore the experiences of a young man, Alvin Miller, who realizes he has incredible powers for creating and shaping things around him. Book one in The Tales of Alvin Maker series, Seventh Son (1987)
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