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Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century.

Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone.

But he has left behind in Hatrack River enemies as well as true friends. His ancient foe, the Unmaker, whose cruel whispers and deadly plots have threatened Alvin's life at every turn, has found new hands to do his work of destruction.

"At long last, Card returns to what promises to be his most notable creation, The Tales of Alvin Maker....  This supurb and welcome book conrinues to saga at the same high level as before." - Booklist

"The best fantasy series in progress." - Publishers Weekly

Alvin has been trying to avert the terrible war that his wife, Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the life-lines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it under Spanish occupation. Alvin doesn't know exactly why he's there, but when he and his brother-in-law, Arthur Stuart, find lodgings with a family of abolitionists who know Peggy, he suspects he'll find out soon.

"Just when you think you know what a writer has up his sleeve, he surprises you with a pair of aces.  Orson Scott Card is that kind of writer....  Card uses language in these novels like never before.  The speech os the characters refelcts their time and beliefs and his descriptions bring the magic alive for the reader." - Indianapolis News

SWORDS
AGAINST SORCERY

Foul sorcery had slain the Emperor.  Now the army of Videssos, betrayed by one man's craven folly, fled in panic from the savage victors.  But there was no panic in the Legion, mysteriously displaced from Gaul and Rome into this strange world of magic.

Wearily, Tribune Marcus Scaurus led his men through the chaos and enemy hordes in search of winter quarters, to regroup and seek to join up with Thorisin Gavras, now rightful ruler of Videssos.

But in Videssos the city, capital of the beleaguered realm, Ortaias Sphrantzes, whose cowardice had caused their defeat, now sat upon the throne.  There, behind great walls that had always made the city impregnable to storm or siege, he ruled with the support of evil sorcery.  Overthrowing him seemed impossible.

Grimly, Marcus Scaurus began the long march through hostile country toward that seemingly hopeless attempt.

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Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him.

Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin's heart as well as his life.

But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin has gone north into New England, where knacks are considered witchcraft, and their use is punished with death.

Peggy has been drawn south, to the British Crown Colonies and the court of King Arthur Stuart in exile. For she has seen a terrible future bloom in the heartfires of every person in America, a future of war and destruction. One slender path exists that leads through the bloodshed, and it is Peggy's quest to set the world on the path to peace.

A HERO's
REWARD...!

Since the Roman legion had been mysteriously transported to this world of magic, tribune Marcus Scaurus had served the rulers of war-torn Videssos well.  He had been largely responsible for ousting the Pretender and putting Thorisin Gavras on the throne.  That, of course, made him a hero.

Rome or Videssos, however, Fortune was a fickle goddess.

Now he and the legion were returning in triumph to Videssos the city after defeating a well-entrenched army of rebel mercenaries.  But Marcus, betrayed by the one closest to him, was returning to be seized, dragged before the Emperor, and questioned under truth-drug like a traitor.

Of the court, only Alypia Gavra stuck by him - but consorting with the Emperor's niece was dangerous.  It could lead to exile - or death!

Yet Alypia was attractive.  And Marcus was lonely...

PRAISE FOR
THE TALES OF ALVIN MAKER

"A tribute in the art of storytelling... highly recommended." - Library Journal

"Card has uncovered a rich vein of folklore and magic here, to which his assured handling of old time religion and manifest love of children is admirably suited: an appealing and intriguing effort." - Publishers Weekly

"Card is one of the most important writers in the field." - Ben Bova

"[Card's] versatility of style, subject, and approach makes him unique in the SF field!' - Anne McCaffrey

"With the third installment in his Tales of Alvin Maker eries, Card's alternate frontier America epic continues to be a significant event in fantasy publishing." - Booklist

"The best fantasy series now in progress." - Publishers Weekly

IF YOU READ ONLY ONE FANTASY
THIS YEAR, THIS IS THE ONE.

"Harsher, bleaker, and more mystical than Seventh Son, this novel superbly demonstrated Card's solid historical research, keen understanding of religious experience, and, most of all, his mastery of the art of storytelling."  - Booklist

Come here to the magical America that might have been,
and marvel as the tale of Alvin Maker unfolds. The seventh son of a seventh son is a boy of mysterious powers, and he is waking to the mysteries of the land and its own chosen people.

"Red Prophet is but a section of a vast American fantasy epic.  It is vividly written, and the principal actors - Alvin, Ta-Kumsaw, the Prophet, and Alvin's Grandalfesque mentor Taleswapper - are all complete and memorable characters."  -The Philadelphia Inquired

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CRITCAL ACCLAIM FOR HARRY HARRISON'S WEST OF EDEN SAGA:
WEST OF EDEN
"AN EPIC IN THE TRADITION OF THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR....  GREAT ESCAPE READING."
-PLAYBOY

"AN ABSORBING, POIGNANT PORTRAIT....  HIS BEST NOVEL IN YEARS."
- NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

WINTER IN EDEN
"DON'T WAIT FOR THE PAPERBACK.  THIS IS ONE OF THE FINEST ADVENTURE STORIES OF THE YEAR."
- SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE

"EXQUISITELY RESEARCHED AND UNDERPINNED WITH 'HARD' SCIENTIFIC EXTRAPOLATION, WINTER IN EDEN IS A DETAILED EXPLORATION OF AN INTRIGUING ALTERNATIVE."
- SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

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RETURN
TO EDEN

THE TRILOGY CONCLUDES...

In West of Eden and Winter in Eden, Harry Harrison, am acknowledged master of imaginative fiction, broke new ground with his most ambitious project to date.  He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants, The Yilanè, challenged humans for mastery of the Earth, and where the human Kerrick, a young hunter of the Tanu tribe, grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy.

Now, in Return to Eden, Harrison brings the epic trilogy to a stunning conclusion.  After Kerrick rescues his people from the warlike Yilanè, they must regroup and consider their future.  They find a safe haven on an island and there begin to rebuild their shattered lives.  But with fierce predators stalking the forests, how long can these unarmed human outcasts hope to survive?  They need weapons, but the only effective weapons lie in the hands of the technologically superior Yilanè.  The small band of humans have no choice but to confront their fate head-on.

And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vaintè, his implacable Yilanè enemy.  She's been cast out from her kind, under sentence of death, but how long will her banishment last?  For her strange attraction to Kerrick has turned into a hatred even more powerful than her inbred instincts - and obsession that compels her to hunt down Kerrick and kill him.  In a world completely unlike our own, two great cultures struggling for mastery of the Earth face the same problem that faces us today: how to coexist on the same planet with others completely unlike ourselves - or mutually perish.  Eagerly awaited by millions of Harry Harrison fans around the world, Return to Eden is the poignant and compelling finale to this spectacularly popular and masterfully imagined series.

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THE WORLD
WEST OF EDEN

A dazzling, imaginative and rousing yarn, the West of Eden saga is also a rigorously researched scientific scenario of alternate history.  Working in collaboration with an international team of scientific experts in biology, engineering, language, anthropolgy and philosophy, Harrison has created a believable, rishly detailed world rivaling Frank Herbert's Dune and Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear, in the majesty of its scope and conception.

In a career that spans more than three decades, Harry Harrison has written more than a dozen novels, including the humorous Stainless Steel Rat novels, and the classic Make Room! Make Room!, basis for the film Soylent Green.  A past president of the World Science Fiction Association, he is also a noted anthologist, editing the acclaimed Nova series and co-editing the highly praised Decade and Year's Best SF volumes with British author Brian Aldiss.  Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Harrison now lives with his wife in County Wicklow, Ireland where he is at work on his next novel.

"Card has exceeded his own high standards in Seventh Son."  - Anne McCaffrey

"This beguiling book recalls Robert Penn Warren... and promises to be a story of deep delight."  - Publishers Weekly

Come fall in love with a magical America that might have been...

Using the lore and folk magic of the men and women who helped settle a continent and beliefs of the tribes who were here before them, Orson Scott Card has created an alternate frontier America where folk magic works, and colored the entire history of the colonies.  It is into this world, amid the deep wood where the Red Man still holds sway, that a very special child is born...

"There is something deeply heart-wrenching about an America come true, even if it is only a dream, a fantasy novel.  The first volume of The Tales of Alvin Maker is sharp and clean bracing.  May its Maker grow."  - Washington Post Book World

"Card brings to building this world and his large cast of well-wrought characters formidable scholarship in history, religion, and folklore.  He also brings to it his maturing command of the English language. ...we are talking about the most important work of American fantasy since Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant trilogy."  - Chicago Sun-Times

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"A gripping adventure story of prehistoric men and women facing fearful odds... should appeal to readers who have enjoyed Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses." - Fritz Leiber

"West of Eden is truly a bravura performance.  I predict that its popularity will rival Dune, to which I consider it superior as a totally realized extrapolation." - Thomas N. Scortia

"West of Eden is Harrison's best book in years, inventive, engrossing, and solidly based on what might have been." - Ben Bova

Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm exterminated three quarters of all species on earth.  Overnight the age of dinosaurs was ended: the age of mammals had begun.

But if that disaster had never happened and the dinosaurs had survived to fulfill their evolutionary destiny, this is what the world might have been.  The world West of Eden.

Harry Harrison, a modern master of imaginative fiction, has created a gripping, vividly rendered epic of prehistory about the tragic, inevitable clash of two mighty races: the Yilane, cold-blooded intelligent reptiles who have dominated the earth and the Tanu, warm blooded humans like ourselves, a proud, fierce hunting clan destined to oppose them.

West of Eden is the remarkable odyssey of Kerrick, a young Tanu hunter captured by the Yilane and raised as one of them by their ruthless matriarch.  As he grows to manhood, Kerrick is schooled in the strange customs, exotic biological sciences, and rigid caste structure of Yilane culture, and for a time all but forgets his heritage.

When at last he escapes and rejoins his people, Kerrick is at first an outcast.  Then, among his tribesmen, he finds love and begins a family, and rises to become the leader of the Tanu.  As Yilane raids threaten the future of the Tanu, Kerrick leads his clan on an arduous trek to unite the human tribes in a confrontation with their enemy that will alter forever the course of history.

A fascinating and deeply moving saga of two cultures fated to struggle for control of the earth,  West of Eden is also a scientifically accurate projection of what could have been the true history of our world.  Throughout this powerful story, and in a detailed appendix, "The World West of Eden,"

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Harry Harrison brings to life the grology, biology, cultures, and languages of this incredible world, working in collaboration with an international team of scientific experts, including Dr. Jack Cohen, research biologist at the University of Birmingham, England; Dr. John R. Pierce, Professor of Engineering at California Institute of Technology; Professor T. A. Shippey, founder and chairman of the Language and Mediaeval Departments of the University of Leeds, England; and Dr. Leon E. Stover, Anthropoligist and Sinologist of Ilinois Institute of Technology.

HARRY HARRISON is one of the most successful and respected authors of speculative fiction writing today.  In a career that spans over three decades, Harry Harrison has written more than a dozen novels including Deathworld, Skyfall and the anti-utopian classic Make Room! Make Room!, basis for the film Soylent Green, as well as numerous short stories.  Harrison worked as a commercial artist, art director, and editor before turning to writing full time.  A past president of the World Science Fiction Association, he is also a noted anthologist, editing the acclaimed Nova series and co-editing the highly praised Decade and Year's Best SF volumes with British author Brian Aldiss.  Harry Harrison was born in Stamford, Connecticut, has made his home in Mexico and in several European countries over the years, and now lives in Ireland.

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR HARRY HARRISON'S WEST OF EDEN:

"An epic in the tradition of The Clan of the Cave Bear.... Great escape reading." - Playboy

"An absorbing, poignant portrait....  His best novel in years." - New York Daily News

"An exciting adventure into a 'what if' world.  A brilliant work of creative imagination, one that rivals in conception, scope and execution of plot Jean Auel's best selling novels." - Nashville Banner

"A big novel in every sense,,,,  Written with skill and integrity....  Consistently inventive, it is also fun." - Washington Post Book World

WINTER
IN EDEN

Long acknowledged as one of science fiction's most gifted storytellers, Harry Harrison broke new ground with WEST OF EDEN, his most ambitious novel to date.  In a daring feat of the imagination, Harrison envisioned the world as it might have been  - a world in which the age of reptiles never ended, and their intelligent decendants, the Yilanè, slashed with humans like ourselves for mastery of the Earth.

WEST OF EDEN told of Kerrick, a young human captured and raised among the Yilanè, who became their most feared enemy.  As leader of the hunting clan known as the Tanu, Kerrick led a great army against the Yilanè, driving them from their beachhead on the western continent.  Now, Harrison continues the saga of this remarkable world in a new epic of conflict, courage and passion.  A new ice age threatens the Earth.  Each year the world grown colder.  Faced with racial extinction, the cold-blooded Yilanè have no choice but to reconquer human territory using their mastery of biology to produce new and deadly weapons.  In flight from their savage raid, Kerrick tries desperately to rally the Tanu to the defense of humanity.

Pursured by a ruthless female Yilanè war chief whose strange attraction to Kerrick has turned to hatred, Kerrick begins an ardouos journey of adventure, danger and self-discovery, accompanied by his beloved Armun and their young son.  His -

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quest leads north to the land of the furred whale hunters known as the Paramutan, east to the Yilanè stronghold and south to a fateful reckoning with destiny.  A poignant, compelling novel of two cultures caught in a tragic struggle for survival, WINTER IN EDEN is a masterwork of the imagination.

THE WORLD
WEST OF EDEN

A dazzling imaginative and rousing yran, the West of Eden saga is also a rigorously researched scientific scenario of alternate histoty.  Working in collaboration with an international team of scientific experts in biology, engineering, language, anthropology and philosophy, Harrison has created a believable, rishly detailed world rivaling Frank Herbert's Dune and Jean Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear, in the majesty of its scope and conception.

In a career that spans over three decades, Harry Harrison has written more than a dozen novels including the humorous Stainless Steel Rat novels, and the classic Make Room! Make Room!, basis for the film Soylent Green.  A past president of the World Science Fiction Association, he is also a noted anthologist, editing the acclaimed Nova series and co-editing the highly praised Decade and Year's Best SF volumes with British author Brian Aldiss.  Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Harrison now lives with his wife in County Wicklow, Ireland where he is at work on the concluding volume in the West of Eden tilogy.