Ahira's Hangar

The Tales of Alvin Maker, for those not familiar with it, is OSC's fantasy set in colonial America. It's a sort of altered tale of an America that might have been, with interesting twists.

It starts with the book Seventh Son. I found the first book of the series a bit slow, but worth the effort. The best 2 books of the series thus far, IMO, are Prentice Alvin and Alvin Journeyman. The next book, The Crystal City is scheduled to come out in November.

Quote:"Walking on Water" is the first third of The Crystal City, the penultimate novel in the Tales of Alvin Maker. It will be serialized on the Hatrack River site in 14 parts, a new one appearing every five days or so.

Check it out at Hatrack. The homepage is at:

http://www.hatrack.com/index.shtml

"Walking on Water" is at:

http://www.hatrack.com/osc/walki...rt03.shtml

All three parts thus far posted are up on the site - look in the box to the right.

~MsMary~
"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"

The Crystal City, the next book is OSC's Alvin Maker series came out today!!!

~MsMary~ "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"<i></i>

Thanks MsMary -- I will keep an eye out for it. Some of the books in this series are quite good. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell

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Perhaps I'll come for you myself some night. You ought to see me...my fur is white now, pale as snow,but the stature, the majesty, the power, those have not left me...We are the direwolves, the nightmares who haunt your racial memories, the dark shapes circling endlessly beyond the light of your fires.~George R.R. Martin<i></i>

Has anyone read The Crystal City yet? I read it last month. It brings some interesting new twists into the story.

But my favorite new characters in the book are Papa Moose and Mama Squirrel, especially since I personally know the people who inspired these characters.

~MsMary~ "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"<i></i>

I was wondering if anyone had come across Lovelock by Card & Kathryn H.Kidd.

This is one of the few collaborations I've read in which you can actually feel the input of the lesser known writer. This story includes some previously visited Card themes, (if you squint your eyes and look really closely you can almost see Ender peering around the odd corner,) but there's a wicked, biting humour (in less polite societies I think they call it sarcasm) that isn't common in his work. There are some very clever and very funny comments on children, marriage, families and society in general.

I'll definitely be looking for the other two books as this has, apparently, been expanded to a trilogy.

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I am familiar with Lovelock, but haven't actually read it yet. It's on my ever-growing TBR list.

~MsMary~ "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?"<i></i>

I finished up his latest fantasy novel, Magic Street, yesterday. I thought it was a bit of a departure for Card (set in an African American neighborhood, with a cast of African American charcters).

I enjoyed it quite a bit. I also really enjoyed the way he brought Shakespearean elements into the story. ******************************************************

Our lives are the songs that sing the universe into existence.~David Zindell
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