L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

L.E. Modesitt was a Navy pilot, a market research analyst, a real estate agent, director of research for a political campaign, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)however, he became the Assistant Acting Assistant Administrator for Legislation in 1987 under Reagan. He left the EPA to become a Environmental regulation consultant.

His first fictional work, "The Great American Economy", was published in 1973 in Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact.

Recurring themes, technologies, and organizations

• Earth is destroyed or nearly destroyed by ecological disaster
• The I.S.S. spy service mentioned in many of his series
• The Galactic Empire
• The Galactic Empire is overthrown or thwarted by ecologist
• Music has power
• Flitters, aircraft that can hover and achieve low space orbit.
• Nanotechnology
• Time travel
• Internalized information networks
• Imbalance leads to destruction and is a perversion of nature
• Gods are real but only because they have higher levels of technology
• War is bad but necessary
• Misuse of technology will lead to man's downfall
• mormons
• Galactic War

Novels

• The Green Progression (1992)

Fantasy

The Corean Chronicles

• Legacies (2002)
• Darkness (2003)
• Scepters (2004)

Ghost Novels

• Of Tangible Ghosts (1994)
• The Ghost of the Revelator (1998)
• Ghost of the White Nights (2001)

Recluce Saga

• The Magic of Recluce (1991)
• The Towers of Sunset (1992)
• The Magic Engineer (1994)
• The Order War (1995)
• The Death of Chaos (1995)
• The Fall of Angels (1996)
• The Chaos Balance (1997)
• The White Order (1998)
• Colors of Chaos (1999)
• Magi'i of Cyador (2001)
• Scion of Cyador (2001)
• Wellspring of Chaos (2004)

Spellsong Cycle

• The Soprano Sorceress (1997)
• The Spellsong War (1998)
• Darksong Rising (1999)
• The Shadow Sorceress (2001)
• Shadowsinger (2002)

Science fiction

• Adiamante (1996)
• Archform Beuty (2000)
• The Hammer of Darkness (1985)
• Gravity Dreams (2000)
• The Octagonal Raven (2001)

The Ecolitan Institute

• The Ecologic Envoy (1986)
• The Ecolitan Operation (1989)
• The Ecologic Secession (1990)
• The Ecolitan Enigma (1997)
• Empire & Ecolitan (2001) Omnibus
• Ecolitan Prime (2003) Omnibus

The Forever Hero

• Dawn for a Distant Earth (1987)
• The Silent Warrior (1987)
• In Endless Twilight (1988)
• The Forever Hero (2000) Omnibus

Parafaith Universe

• The Parafaith War (1996)
• The Ethos Effect (2003)

Timegod's World

• The Fires of Paratime (1982)
• Timediver's Dawn (1992)
• The Timegod (1993)
• Timegod's World (2001) Omnibus

Short Fiction

• Came the Revolution (1977) Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1977
• The Great American Economy (1973)Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1973
• A House by Any Other Name (1974) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1974
• Iron Man, Plastic Ships (1979) Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Oct 1979
• Power to ...? (1990) Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November 1990
• Reaction Time (1978)Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1978
• Rule of Law (1981) Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, April 27, 1981
• Second Coming (1979)Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, Spring 1979
• Understanding (2000)On Spec, Summer 2000
• Viewpoint Critical (1978)Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, July 1978

External Links

• Recluce, The Offical Modesitt Website
• TOR's Modesitt Publishers Press Page
• The Worlds of L.E.Modesitt
• Suite 101 Modesitt Webpage
• SF World L.E. Modesitt Interview

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