“Lolla-Wossiky is left like a White man then. Cut off from the land. Ground crunching underfoot. Branches snagging. Roots tripping. Animals running away.”

— Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 4.

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American science fiction novelist 1951

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