L. E Modesitt
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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,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Being a child of wealth hasn't made life easy for Daryn Alwyn but he hasn't wanted it easy and he's always been determined to choose his own path, abandoning the possibility of power and leisure with his family's giant Media Network for a solo career, first as a military space pilot, later as a freelance media consultant. Only when he becomes the target of a series of deadly attacks does he begin to realize the true depth of responsibility his heritage...
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
A standalone military science fiction adventure from, L. E. Modesitt, author of the bestselling Saga of Recluce series, The Parafaith War combines hard science fiction adventure with an insightful examination of the relationship between the sacred and the secular.
In the far future among the colonized worlds of the galaxy, there's a war going on between the majority of civilized worlds and a colonial theocracy.
Trystin Desoll grows up fighting against...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The lives and fates of three civilizations separated in time become intertwined as the forces behind an indestructible and massive canal 2,000 miles long and spanning the mid-continent of Earth react to a plot to overthrow the world government, and three teams of scientists find their lives changed beyond belief.
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Publisher
Tom Doherty Assoc
Pub. Date
1999
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
Corean chronicles volume 7th
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
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, a mission that is complicated by an attempt to marry her off to a lord in a neighboring land. Set in Tempre, the capital city of Lanachrona on Corus, the world of Modesitt's Corean Chronicles.
7) Isolate
Author
Series
Grand illusion volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2021]
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...
8) Councilor
Author
Series
The grand illusion volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
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...
10) Quantum shadows
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
On a world called Heaven, Conwyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity's Falls from Grace and discovers that another Fall may happen. If he doesn't stop it, mankind will not survive.
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 3rd
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Rhennthyl and Seliora are married and have a small daughter, and Rhennthyl has proven to be an effective patrol captain as well as a strong imager. But problems are increasing: a new addictive drug is destroying more people faster, including a member of Rhenn's family, mysterious explosions rock the city of L'Excelsis, and the country's most powerful enemy is expected to go to war any day.
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 1st
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
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.
14) Ordermaster
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Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
15) Darknesses
Author
Series
Corean chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Quaeryt's prestigious new rank and marriage to Vaelora are threatened by a devastating volcanic eruption in the old capital of Telaryn, where he is challenged to restore order in the face of chaos, corruption, and an invasion by a would-be conqueror.
17) Scholar
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Series
Imager portfolio volume 4th
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Description
On his way to Tilbor on a military scouting mission, scholar-imager Quaeryt must face pirates, storms, poisonings, attempted murder, and stunning revelations about himself.
Hundreds of years before the time of Imager, the continent of Lydar is fragmented. Quaeryt is a scholar and a friend of Bhayar, the young ruler of Telaryn; he has concealed the fact that he is an imager. Just before Quaeryt departs for Tilbor, Bhayar's youngest sister passes a...
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Series
Imager portfolio volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Earning a promotion after the events in Imager's Battalion, Quaeryt is placed under the command of his brother-in-law, Bhayar, and leads an Imagers team into hostile lands once held by the tyrannical Rex Kharst, where they confront a powerful order of women.
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Series
Saga of Recluce volume 19
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After using frightening powers to save lives and survive a war, Order mage Beltur is forced on the run.