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At the end of Heartfire, Calvin is cured and everybody is returning home.
At the beginning of Crystal City, Alvin is in Barcy, he and Peggy have lost a baby, Alvin has freed some slave from a river boat and had run ins with Davy Crocket and Jim Bowie. And I don't know about any of this besides subtle hints in the new book.
I feel cheated. There is obviously a whole bunch of stuff I don't know. What happened to Mike Fink?
Did I miss a book?
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First of all, welcome to the great community that is Hatrack.
I myself have not read Crystal City. I can't afford to buy the hard-back version of it. All I know is that most books by Orson Scott Card move rather quickly. Take Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead for example. At the end of Ender's Game, Ender was like 13 years old. At the beginning of Speaker for the Dead, he was in his late 20s I believe, and he was teaching kids. In short, no. I don't think you did. Here is the order. 1. Seventh Son 2. Red Prophet 3. Prentice Alvin 4. Alvin Journeyman, 5. Heartfire 6 Crystal City Upcoming 7. Master Alvin (conclusion to the series! )
I hope that helps.
By the way Kristine, if you see this could you let me know when the paperback print is release if you have the information?
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It's not so much the time gap but the allusion to so many different things. You get the feeling that you have missed something. You come across references to people and events that you should know about but you don't.
BTW, I got my copy from the library. I long ago ran out of room for hard backs in my house.
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I've never heard about a book entitled Alvin Maker. The series was to have seven novels, and the last is Master Alvin. There is a third short story which falls between Heartfire and The Crystal City, though -- working title White Prophet. That, along with Grinning Man and Yazoo Queen fall into that timeframe.
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I take it that _White Prophet_ will be considerably longer than _Grinning Man_ or _Yazoo Queen_?
*** SPOILERS for Crystal City, Grinning Man, Yazoo Queen and (presumably) White Prophet ***
It has quite a lot to cover: * Alvin's travel to Crystal City, Tennizy * the death of his first child, and his subsequent visit back to Hatrack. * the start of his wanderings again, joining up with the start of _GM_.
There could conceivably be more to tell between the end of _YQ_ and the beginning of _CC_, of Alvin's and Arthur's adventures with Abe and Coz on the raft.
*** END OF SPOILERS ***
Is there any more information about what stories may fall into this period? Will there be a linking novel published some time later which incorporates all this material?
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