Red Prophet
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
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Our view
“Red Prophet” extends “The Tales of Alvin Maker”, Card’s alternate-history fantasy, in a second volume that won the Locus Award. It was also shortlisted for the Hugo and the Nebula. Some readers note that Alvin Miller comes back only after several chapters, and that the appeal of “Seventh Son” returns with him; they also single out Card’s phrasing. Others are not won over by the series, without calling the book bad.
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About the book
Red Prophet (1988) is an alternate history/fantasy novel by American writer 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 won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1989, was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988, and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1989.
Reading order · The Tales of Alvin Maker
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 105 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 42% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Fantasy average of 8.0. That is how 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.3 | 13 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.1 | 92 | 88% |
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How long is Red Prophet?
It has 320 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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