L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86645-7
The prolific and popular fantasy author adds to his Recluce series (The Chaos Balance, etc.), with this entry tracing the rise of an orphan, Cerryl, to powerful magicianship. That's a venerable concept, but Modesitt keeps it fresh with crisp...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-86339-5
Best known for his popular Recluse fantasy series, Modesitt harkens back, after seven years, to the setting of his Ecolitan Matter SF series (The Ecolitan Succession, 1990, etc.). Ecolitan Institute economist and sometime intelligence agent...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $27.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-312-87379-0
Set in the fantasy series the Saga of Recluse and following the characters featured in Magi'i of Cyador, this novel advances the story of Lorn. He is a brilliant man from a respected family who uses his combined prowess as a talented soldier and a...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $27.95 (444p) ISBN 978-0-312-87226-7
Once again Modesitt (Colors of Chaos, The Spellsong Cycle series) returns to the fantasy world of his popular Saga of Recluce series, now with the first book in a new story line set in Recluce's past. The only thing standing between the Empire of...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $21.95 (440p) ISBN 978-0-312-85116-3
The battle between good, denoted by order, and evil, represented by chaos, underlies this promising coming-of-age fantasy. The youth Lerris, a skeptical misfit, is sent on a journey designed to determine whether he will ever be capable of serving...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $23.95 (510p) ISBN 978-0-312-85570-3
There is little to distinguish this newest Recluce work (after Towers of the Sunset ) from its myriad fantasy brethren. This time around, Modessit's world of Order (Black) and Chaos (White) features the plodding Dorrin, a healer/engineer who dreams...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85904-6
The primacy of ideas over characterization-a hallmark of (John) Campbellian science fiction-distinguishes Modesitt's current novel from his popular Recluse series and the delightful Of Tangible Ghosts. Trystin Desoll is a young Eco-Tech officer who...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $22.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-312-85720-2
Modesitt's writerly tics, so obtrusive in his Recluce fantasy series (The Magic Engineer), seem less annoying than usual in this routine SF novel set in an alternative universe in which the Dutch, not the British, controlled the American colonies....
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $23.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-312-85569-7
In this fourth tale set in Modesitt's universe, where good and evil, chaos and order, are in perpetual conflict, a young wizard reluctantly finds that his destiny is to strike a balance, but at considerable personal cost. Sometime well after the...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $24.95 (479p) ISBN 978-0-312-85721-9
Modesitt's entertaining fifth book in the Recluce fantasy series details the further adventures of the young wizard Lerris, protagonist of the 1991 series kickoff, The Magic of Recluce. Lerris, who narrates, is happily ensconsed in his carpentry...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85905-3
The Gods themselves do battle in this prequel to Modesitt's popular Recluse saga. Set centuries before last year's The Death of Chaos, the story recounts a space battle in which the frigate Winterlance is blown into another universe and makes an...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86021-9
In the far future, humanity is scattered among the stars and has divided into many subgroups. On Old Earth itself, after many wars and disasters, society is based on conservation and non-aggression. But the resilience of this culture is tested when...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-86022-6
The author of the popular Recluce series (The Magic of Recluce, etc.) begins a new, enchantingly musical series. Anna Marshal, singer and teacher in Ames, Iowa, is leading a lousy life. Her eldest daughter has recently died, her ex-husband treats...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $17.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-312-87879-5
As shown in these two solid if not spectacular reprints (The Ecolitan Operation, 1989; The Ecologic Secession, 1990), part of the author's far-future action SF series about the planet Accord's Ecolitan (or Ecologic) Institute and its...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-86826-0
The transformation of a young man from an agrarian Luddite to a physiologically enhanced star pilot provides the plot for Modesitt's (The Ghost of the Revelator) latest, a far-future SF adventure. Young Tyndel is content with his career as a teacher
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $27.95 (507p) ISBN 978-0-312-86822-2
The third volume of Modesitt's popular Spellsong Cycle may be its conclusion, but enough loose ends remain to both create realism and allow another trilogy--a felicitous combination for a saga in which music is a source of magic and a bereaved voice
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $27.95 (494p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1213-6
In Ordermaster, the picaresque 13th entry in L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s Saga of Recluce and the immediate sequel to Wellspring of Chaos (2004), Kharl the cooper, now lord of Cantyl, successfully battles chaos-wielding white wizards, turns a whole mountain...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $21.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-312-85297-9
Set in the same world as Modesitt's The Magic of Recluce, this lively tale of two strong-willed magicians' coming-of-age chronicles the founding of the island nation of Recluce. Creslin, young son of the Marshall of Westwind, is permitted to learn...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-86389-0
When their spaceship crashed in the chill reaches of the Roof of the World on the planet Candor, the wizardly weaponsmith Nylan saved his fellow ""angels"" by building the Tower Black, a refuge and fortress. Now Ryba, the angel leader and self-procla
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L.E. Modesitt Jr., Tor, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2664-5
Prolific author Modesitt (Imager's Intrigue) stumbles with this tedious tale of a far future in which a new ice age threatens Earth, and a vast canal, built by an ancient civilization, splits the world's central continent for no readily discernible...
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L.E. Modesitt Jr. Tor, $27.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2955-4
Modesitt branches out from the original Imager trilogy (which concluded with Imager’s Intrigue in 2010) with this somewhat sluggish political fantasy. Scholar Quaeryt Rytersyn is sent by Lord Bhayar of Telaryn to check into some anomalies occurring...
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L.E. Modesitt Jr. Tor, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3544-9
This plodding off-world mystery is replete with annoying quirks but devoid of suspense. Paulo Verano is an ecologist sent to survey the far-flung planet of Stittara, the sole source of life-extending “cosmetic and physiological anagathics” and home...
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L.E. Modesitt Jr. Tor, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8195-8
Alayna Wong-Grant, lone astrophysicist at a telescopic array on the dark side of the Moon, spots an object moving in a cometary orbit but with unnatural properties, including high reflectivity and traces of silver. Capt. Chris Tavoian, a Moon-based...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $25.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1464-2
The prolific Modesitt (Flash
) employs four different narrative perspectives in this slow-moving tale of far-future intergalactic human civilizations, with often compelling if sometimes repetitive results. The enlightened, progressive government of...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-87877-1
In Modesitt's fourth absorbing book of the Spellsong Cycle (The Soprano Sorceress, etc.), the student Secca picks up the mantle of musically managed magic from Sorceress-Protector Anna, protagonist of the earlier novels set in the Europeanoid...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0095-9
This not-especially-thrilling thriller completes the trilogy that began with Of Tangible Ghosts
and The Ghost of the Revelator. The most striking feature of Modesitt's alternative Earth is that scientists have discovered that the human soul is...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (672p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0358-5
In this fifth and final novel in the author's popular Spellsong Cycle, an immediate sequel to The Shadow Sorceress
(2001), Modesitt has penned a competent but pedestrian political-military fantasy thriller. There are few surprises in a world...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0433-9
Best known for his fantasy fiction (the Saga of Recluce), Modesitt has outdone himself in this highly original SF novel, using future technology to satirize and amplify the gulf that separates science from art. In the 24th century, politics remains...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0561-9
Although "judicious matriarchy vs. brutish patriarchy" may have been done to death, Modesitt has boldly taken on the task of breathing new life into this venerable feminist cliché, and done a more than credible job. Alucius, a young...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0704-0
The prolific Modesitt (The Saga of Recluce; The Spellsong Cycle) delivers a solid, well-paced sequel to Legacies
(2002), set in the fantasy world of Corus, home to humans and a variety of odd creatures. After a slow opening that may perplex new...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0907-5
The prolific Modesitt's 12th Recluce fantasy, his first since 2001's Scion of Cyador
, delights from start to finish. In the city of Brysta on the island of Nordla, Kharl, a cooper, has a prosperous business and a loving, if not perfect,...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1042-2
The concluding volume in Modesitt's Corean Chronicles trilogy (after Legacies
and Darknesses
), an intriguing blend of martial fantasy and SF, gets off to a slow start, then picks up steam once the vivid and inventive magic starts flying. The...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1128-3
Down the mean streets of a future Denver a man must go, in this Chandleresque tale of corporate and political scheming and murder. Fantasy bestseller Modesitt (the Spellsong Cycle) returns to his SF setting of a federated post-U.S. North America (
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author . Tor $27.95 (510p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1387-4
While not quite up to the Spellsong saga or the best of the Recluce novels, Modesitt's complex fourth entry in his Corean series (after 2004's Scepters
) contains plenty of fine world building and intelligently developed magic. With the life
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (510p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1528-1
Set on the vividly imagined world of Corus, Modesitt's well-crafted fifth volume of his Corean Chronicles picks up where the fourth book, Alector's Choice
(2005), left off. Dainyl, an alector who's now a submarshal of the Myrmidons, and
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Modesitt's concluding volume to the Corean Chronicles (after 2005's Cadmian's Choice
) brings the fantasy saga to a thunderous, satisfying climax. The High Alector Dainyl is now a Marshal, charged with keeping peace among the infighting...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-765-31720-9
Modesitt's action-packed space opera–cum–hard-boiled detective story (after 2006's Soarer's Choice
) stars Blaine Donne, retired special operative who solves problems for the wealthy by day and fights crime by night on the...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1813-8
Modesitt's 14th novel of the island-continent Recluce (after 2004's Ordermaster
) introduces Rahl, a short-tempered but diligent copyist with a knack for wielding a truncheon. These skills prove vital when he's banished to the distant
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author . Tor $25.95 (350p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1857-2
This impressive collection of reprints dating back to 1973 and a handful of new stories displays Modesitt's breadth of experience and knowledge to great effect. “The Great American Economy†mocks those who micromanage the national economy for...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.95 (619p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1927-2
Thick as it is, the 15th Recluce novel is actually just the second half of the story that began with Natural Ordermage
(2007), in which young Rahl was exiled from Recluce because he couldn't control his passions or considerable magical talents.
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $22.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2163-3
Modesitt returns to the setting of two earlier trilogies with a stand-alone novel that keeps readers engaged right up to the perfunctory conclusion. As oldest daughter of the ruler of Lanachrona, Mykella has high rank but no real power. Though...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2034-6
Modesitt (The Lord Protector’s Daughter
) launches a trilogy set in a brand new world with this straightforward, exposition-heavy story. Apprentice portraitist Rhennthyl finds out the hard way that he has the magical ability called Imaging: an
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor $27.99 (527p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2381-1
Modesitt's 16th Recluce novel (after 2008's Mage-Guard of Hamor
) continues the story of Westwind, an all-female enclave in a feudalistic world. Westwind's chauvinistic, abusive neighbors were soundly defeated 10 years earlier (as...
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L.E. Modesitt Jr, Tor, $27.99 (496p) ISBN 9780765325624
The third volume in the Imager Portfolio series (after 2009's Imager's Challenge), set in a fantasy world with an early modern feel, follows powerful imager Rhennthyl as he polices the streets of L'Excelcis. Though rarely called on to use his power...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author Tor Books $27.99 (460p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2126-8
In this second installment of Modesitt's serpentine political fantasy series (following 2008's Imager), the imager Rhennthyl has been made a Maitre D'Aspect and Liaison to the Civic Patrol of L'Excelsis. As a covert security...
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author, Jr. Modessit, Author Tor Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86426-2
Like the portions of pasta, chocolate and wine that figure heavily in the diet of retired spy--now amateur chef and university professor--Johan Eschbach and his diva wife, Llysette, too many themes weigh down the fragile story line of Modesitt's new
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Author, Modesitt, Author Tor $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0802-3
Set 200 years after the events in The Parafaith Wars
(1997), Modesitt's complex, fast-paced stand-alone offers a traditional space-adventure hero and heavy doses of philosophy laced with ethical issues. Commander Van C. Albert, of the...
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