L. E Modesitt
1) Councilor
Author
Series
Grand illusion volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his brand new, gaslamp, political fantasy series with Councilor the thrilling sequel to Isolate. Continued poor harvests and steam-powered industrialization displace and impoverish thousands. Protests grow and gather followers. Against this rising tide of social unrest, Steffan Dekkard, newly appointed to the Council of Sixty-Six, is the first Councilor...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On a world called Heaven, the ten major religions of mankind each have their own land, governed by a capital city and ruled by a hegemon. That hegemon may be a good or a prophet of a god. Corvyn, known as the shadow of the raven, contains the collective memory of humanity's Falls from grace. With this knowledge comes enormous power. When an unknown entity burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre, Corvyn must...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
L.E. Modesitt returns to SF with a whole new future world on the brink of destruction.
A brilliant scientist on the planet Devanta has created a small universe contiguous to ours --and a utopian city on one of the planets. The question becomes, though, an utopia for whom? And why is a shady entertainment mogul subsidizing the scientist? More critical than that, does this new universe require the destruction of a portion --or all -- of our universe...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the far future, an indestructible and massive canal more than 2,000 miles long spans the mid-continent of Earth. Nothing can mar it, move it, or affect it in any fashion. At its western end, where it meets the sea, is an equally indestructible structure comprising three levels of seemingly empty chambers.
Scientists from three different civilizations, separated in time by hundreds of thousands of years, are investigating the canal. In the most...
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 7th
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., author of the bestselling Saga of Recluce fantasy series, opens the door into a marvelous new world.
Millennia ago, a magical disaster caused the fall of a great worldwide civilization, the end of a golden age. New civilizations have fought their way up from the ancient destruction and chaos, knowing little of the lost world that preceded them or the details of its fall. Corus today is a world of contending countries, of humans,...
6) Haze
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What lies beneath the millions of orbiting nanotech satellites that shroud the world called Haze? Major Keir Roget's mission is to make planetfall in secret, find out, and report back to his superiors in the Federation, the Chinese-dominated government that rules Earth and the colonized planets.
For all his effectiveness as a security agent, Roget is troubled by memories of an earlier mission. When he was assigned to covert duty in the Noram backcountry...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
5,000 years in the future, humankind has spread across thousands of worlds, and more than a dozen different governments exist in an uneasy truce. But human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence.
This changes when scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann, travelling the void just beyond the edge of the Galaxy at such a high speed that it cannot be natural. Its continents and oceans have been...
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 6th
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
L. E. Modesitt, Jr., author of the bestselling Saga of Recluce fantasy series, opens the door into a marvelous new world.
Millennia ago, a magical disaster caused the fall of a great worldwide civilization, the end of a golden age. New civilizations have fought their way up from the ancient destruction and chaos, knowing little of the lost world that preceded them or the details of its fall. Corus today is a world of contending countries, of humans,...
10) Darknesses
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
The magically gifted Alucius, the Militia's youngest captain, faces a would-be conqueror whose formidable military and magical campaigns are being assisted by a host of legendary creatures.
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 20
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After using frightening powers to save lives and survive a war, Order mage Beltur is forced on the run.
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Apprentice portraitist Rhennthyl begins training as a covert operative after he discovers that he has the magical ability called Imaging. When his martial training kicks into high gear though, an unknown assassin tries to kill him.
13) Endgames
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 12
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Solidar is in chaos. Charyn, the young and untested ruler of Solidar, has survived assassination, and he struggles to gain control of a realm in the grip of social upheaval, war, and rioting. Solidar cannot be allowed to slide into social and political turmoil that will leave the High Holders with their ancient power and privilege, and the common people with nothing. But the stakes are even higher than he realizes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"L. E. Modesitt, Jr., continues his bestselling Saga of Recluce with The Mage-Fire War, the third book in a story arc which began with The Mongrel Mage and Outcasts of Order. Once again, prejudices against the use of chaos magic force Beltur and his companions to flee their refuge in Axalt. The rulers of nearby Montgren have offered them sanctuary and the opportunity to become the Councilors of the run-down and disintegrating town of Haven. Montegren...
15) From the forest
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 23
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Alayiakal, who will one day be known by many names--not all of them flattering--has to climb the ranks of Cyador's Mirror Lancers, fighting against unforeseen weapons and ancient technology. Alayiakal, however, has secrets of his own to protect: his tiesto the Great Forest and his magus abilities. He must silently pretend to be a conventional soldier favored by fate--until that very same fate forces him to choose"--
16) The mongrel mage
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 19
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Saga of Recluce chronicles the history of this world with world-building detail and an ingenious and disciplined magic system. L.E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to his longest and bestselling fantasy series with volume nineteen, The Mongrel Mage, which marks the beginning of a new story arc. In the world of Recluce, powerful mages can wield two kinds of magic--the white of Chaos or the black of Order. Beltur, however, has talents no one dreamed of, talents...
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium. Now married and a father, he would like to focus his efforts on improving Imagisle and making it more self-sufficient. However, a crisis is brewing in Solidar, causing the High Holders to call for repeals on the Codex Legis. Once again, Alastar must maintain a careful balance, but he can't avoid the involvement of the Collegium when someone begins killing students. Trying to protect...
19) Rex Regis
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 8
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The saga of the Imager Quaeryt, Commander in the forces of Lord Bhayar, reaches a new climax as the great struggle to unify the continent of Lydar enters its final phase. Only the land of Khel remains uncommitted to Bhayar's rule. Their decision could mean a lasting peace, or more conflict across an already war-ravaged realm. While the conqueror of Bovaria awaits emissaries to arrive with news of Khel's decision, other weighty matters occupy Bhayar,...
20) Assassin's price
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 11
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Six years have passed since the failed uprising of the High Holders, and Charyn, the rex's heir, has come of age and wants to learn to be an effective rex after his father. His father disagrees, so Charyn sets out to educate himself. But when privateers attack the rex's ships and threats escalate against the rex and his family, Charyn will realize that no one is safe--for an assassin stalks them all.--
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