“Road poured out into a place of meadows and a few White man’s buildings. Lots of wagons. Horses posted and tied, grazing on the meadow grass. Sounds of metal hammers ringing, chopping of axes in the wood, screech of saws going back and forth, all kinds of White-man forest-killing sounds. A White man’s town.”

— 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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