L. E Modesitt
1) Adiamante
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
After ten thousand years in exile, the cyber-warriors return in their fleet of spaceships to the planet that rejected them: Earth.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
In Earth's distant future, Tyndel is both teacher and mentor, a staunch devotee to his conservative and rigidly structured religious culture. Then a rogue infection of nanotechnology transforms him into a "demon", something more than human, and he is forced into exile, fleeing to the more technologically advanced space-faring civilization that lies to the north, one that his own righteous people consider evil. Although shaken by his transformation,...
Author
Series
Ghost books volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
L.E. Modesitt, Jr., has gained a legion of devoted fans for his science fiction as well as his epic fantasy novels. The Ghost of the Revelator is one of the best displays yet of his ability to blend dramatic, imaginative stories with rigorous social and scientific extrapolation. Doktor Johan Eschbach (the central character of Modesitt's popular alternate history SF novel, Of Tangible Ghosts) had hoped for a quiet life in retirement from the intelligence...
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 6
Publisher
Tor Book
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
As the Alector civilization plans to abandon Corus for a rich new world, the planet Corus will be cut off from the civilizing government of the Alectors and used for a dumping ground for malcontents, despite the efforts of honest Alectors.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Scientists from three different civilizations, separated in time by hundreds of thousands of years, investigate a mysterious indestructible canal on Earth, while a plot is hatched to overthrow the world government of one of the civilizations, using a weapon that can destroy anything--except the canal.
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Discovering that large sums of money have been diverted from her father's treasury, the eldest daughter of Lanachrona's overseer is directed to discover her Talent in order to save her world.
7) Haze
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
On a secret mission, Major Keir Roget must report back to the Federation about his findings on the world called Haze, but isn't sure how much of the strange, yet oddly familiar alien culture he finds is truly a danger.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This is the first story collection ever from the bestselling fantasy and science fiction writer L.E. Modesitt, Jr. He began publishing as a short story writer in the SF magazines in the 1970s, mostly in Analog. Some of the earliest stories are kernels for his early SF novels, others display the wide range of his talents and interests, from satire to military adventure.
9) Isolate
Author
Series
Grand illusion volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party. When a respected Landor Councilor dies of "heart failure" at a social event, because of his political...
10) Councilor
Author
Series
Grand illusion volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 who is an Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and emotional surveillance of empaths. This makes him dangerous. As unknown entities seek to assassinate him, Dekkard struggles...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Now for the first time in one big volume, two novels of Dr. Johan Eschbach, professor at a small college in the northeast and secret agent for the government of Columbia. This is an alternate history world shaped by the fact that ghosts are not mere superstition but have a literal physical reality--and political implications--because your crimes can haunt you, and the ghosts of your crimes are visible to others. Here are two adventures--Of Tangible...
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In space, feminist women battle macho men in a war between two totalitarian societies, one ruled by women, the other by men. They are portrayed through the eyes of a man warrior who has lived in both.
13) The white order
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 8
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
L.E. Modesitt's bestselling fantasy novels set in the world of Recluce are among the most popular in contemporary fantasy. Rich in detail, Modesitt's Recluce books are a feast of wonderous marvels. Booklist notes, "Modesitt's elaborate and intelligent working out of a system of magic and a system of technology parallel to it is becoming more the lifeblood of the Recluce books with every new volume. . . his saga continues to gain in popularity." The...
Author
Series
Spellsong cycle volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
The world of Erde is governed by the power of music and song. When Anna Marshall, a singer and music instructor at Iowa State University, is drawn into Erde, she becomes a sorceress - potentially their strongest. Her power soon makes her the target of ruthless political factions.
15) Magi'i of Cyador
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Though born with talent in a family of magi'i, Lorn lacks the unquestionable loyalty to serve as a Magus of Cyador--he's too independent for his own good, a trait which gets him sent to the frontier to fight off barbarian raiders.
Author
Series
Spellsong cycle volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
With The Soprano Sorceress L.E. Modesitt started The Spellsong Cycle, an innovative and compelling new fantasy series that won Modesitt tons of new readers. The Spellsong War will enthrall its readers and continue to build Modesitt's increasingly loyal following. Anna Marshal is regent of the kingdom of Defalk only a few months after a sorcerer pulled her from her boring life as a music instructor in Ames, Iowa to the world of Erde. With her ability...
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 12
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After rescuing a neighbor's daughter from a violent attack by two aristocrats, Kharl, the finest cooper in Brysta, discovers that he has run afoul of Egen, the corrupt and evil son of the local ruler.
18) Shadowsinger
Author
Series
Spellsong cycle volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Secca, foster daughter of the Soprano Sorceress, and now her successor as Sorceress Protector of Defalk, must deal carefully with her willful master and wield her power to save his kingdom from the armies, fleets and master sorcerers of the Maitre of Sturinn. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, she is forced to test her own powers over and over again, while teaching her new husband and her inexperienced apprentice the skills they will need to...
Author
Series
Ecolitan matter volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years after winning secession from the Terran Empire (as chronicled in the earlier omnibus, Empire & Ecolitan), the star system Accord wants to sign a simple trade treaty with the Empire on microchip export tariffs. But if the agreement is so minor, why is Professor Nathaniel Whaler, chief economist at the Ecolitan Institute and his world's top commando killer, chosen as Accord's Envoy? Because the Imperial capital is a maddening bureaucracy...
20) Alector's choice
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Millennia ago, a magical disaster caused the fall of a civilization, the end of a golden age. New civilizations emerged from the ancient destruction and chaos, knowing little of the past or the disaster. Corus today is a world of contending countries, humans, and supernatural creatures. It is a place of magical powers, and of a few people who are talented enough to use them. Alector Dainyl is the fourth highest ranking military officer of the Duarchy,...