Travis Edmunds wrote:
>
> I finished off "Seventh Son" by OS Card the other day. It's the first book
> in the Alvin Maker series. Has anyone here read that book, or perhaps all
> the books leading up to and including "The Crystal City"?
>
> The reason I ask is due to the fact that I rate "Seventh Son" above "Enders
> Game". Of course I acknowledge the fact that I'm being served another
> demigod on a silver platter, but I absolutely loved that book.
>
> -Travis
I've read all of them but _The Crystal City_. I do confess
to being a bit upset when I discovered that _Seventh Son_ was only
the start of a series! (I thought it was stand-alone when I bought
it.)
I do quite like the books, although the last two didn't
seem to move the series forward as much as the first three did.
Alvin doesn't seem to be too much of a "superman" for me.
He basically has one extra power, in a world where many people
have such "knacks". It is a nice general power, but a lot of his
progress is because of his own struggles.
Now is it Science Fiction? I'd say yes, if only in a
general sense. Card has imagined a world with not too many
differences from our own past, and thought through the
consequences of those differences pretty carefully. That is
the core of Science Fiction, isn't it?
---David
What? Science fiction needs high technology? Says who?
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