Prentice Alvin
- 207
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
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Our view
“Prentice Alvin” is a well-crafted third volume of Card’s “The Tales of Alvin Maker”, blending alternate American history with fantasy. Here Alvin Miller, a seventh son born to a seventh son, enters his years as an apprentice and comes of age. Some readers feel Card grows wordier with each book of the series. It is best read in order, after the first two volumes.
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About the book
Prentice Alvin (1989) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It is the third book in Card's The Tales of Alvin Maker series and is about Alvin Miller, the seventh son of a seventh son. Prentice Alvin won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1990, was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1989, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1990.
Reading order · The Tales of Alvin Maker
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 78 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 35% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 78 | 100% |
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How long is Prentice Alvin?
It has 207 pages — shorter than 98% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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