Seventh Son – and, by extension, the Alvin Maker series – is just one of the best alternate histories out there. Also one of the best magical alternate histories, and one of the best alternate Americas, and one of the best folklore alternate histories, and in the subgenre niche that it’s made for itself it’s thus pretty much supreme. I wish that Orson Scott Card would get on with finishing the series. I guess I’ll just have to tide myself over by rereading this one again.
And so, adieu to Footfall.
Have you read the Homecoming series? It’s pretty much a sci-fi-ification of the Book of Mormon, if my memory serves. Alvin Maker is a fantasy version of Joseph Smith, so it might be interesting to compare them.