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    The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Six
    The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Six
    The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Six
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Six

    Written by Orson Scott Card

    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and M. E. Willis

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    This full-cast production of Orson Scott Card's newest title is finally available on audio

    From the end of the 18th century, Americans travelled west to find new homes and new lands. They brought with them the magics of plain people. It is from these roots of the American dream that award-winning writer Orson Scott Card has crafted what the Charlotte Observer called "a uniquely American fantasy." Using the lore and the folk magic of the men and women who settled a continent, and the beliefs of the tribes who were here before them, Card has created an alternate frontier America. Charms, beseechings, hexes, and potions all have a place in the lives of the people of this world.

    Alvin Miller is the seventh son of a seventh son, born while his six brothers all still lived. Such a birth is a powerful magic; such a boy is destined to perhaps become a Maker. Rejoin the tale of Alvin and his wife Peggy as they work to create the Crystal City of Alvin's vision, where all people can live together in peace.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 2004
    ISBN9781593974879
    The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Book Six
    Author

    Orson Scott Card

    Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and is set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien "Buggers." Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977--the short story "Gert Fram" in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of "Ender's Game" in the August issue of Analog. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin. Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University. He is the author many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" (beginning with Seventh Son), and stand-alone novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's work also includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old. Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card. He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.

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    • 4/5
      This is a continuation of Card's alternate history series about Alvin Maker in his version of early America. Card blends in historical figures, magic and Alvin's effect on the colonies to make an intriguing history. Unfortunately, this book feels a little less finished than the others, almost as if Alvin has something else to do, that even he doesn't know about. Still good reading.
    • 3/5
      Great mixture of AU satire pure comedy action adventure emotion wonder likeable characters and plot. A great read and a great addition to the Alvin Maker series.
    • 3/5
      Easily the worst Alvin Maker book so far. It feels a little like he's writing it just to get on with wrapping up the series.
    • 3/5
      So, I own this book because I loved the first few Alvin Maker books. I rated it three stars out of respect to the previous books but I didn't particularly enjoy how this series shaped up. Alvin's relationship with Peg seemed forced and unrealistic no matter how Card tried to finagle it. A disappointing end to a series with a strong start.
    • 3/5
      Come live in an America that might have been. Where everyday people used hexes and charms in their homes and lives. Where a slave turned into a bird and flew to freedom with infant in her arms. Where Red men created a powerful magic with the sacrifice of their lives and in doing so created a barrier no white man could ever cross. Where a Weaver sits in her cabin weaving our lives-as her ancestress did in the old country-as her cousins in the old country do even now-and as her daughter in the Red mans land does as well. Where Ben Franklin was a Wizard and a Maker and George Washington was beheaded. Where the Iroquis-in the books the Irawaka are one of the original states that sign the constitution-known in the books as The Compact. A Compact that makes Red men-Native Americans- citizens as well as black men-no slaves. The books tell the tale of Alvin, who is the seventh son of a seventh son and a very powerful Maker-almost like a wizard. He fights against the Unmaker. The books also feature a very prominent Torch-or psychic. In these novels Card weaves a wonderful Continent full of powerful characters.
    • 4/5
      Certainly not the strongest of the series, but still a necessary read to understand all of Card's authoring capabilities. I personally felt as though the characters lost all of the drive of the former books once the ending was in sight. This was sad and disappointing, given that the "end" of the series was not necessarily final. Rather, it was a closing of a journey and the beginning of real growth. (This reader appreciates that kind of ending, making me realize that a character's life can continue even though I am no longer a witness to it.)The characters just kind of dwindled into what they had been. Perhaps the lesson was that a person needs to learn to accept their true personality in order to find fulfillment... I want to see more from a novel, though.