L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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  • Bibliography:
    89 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1982
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Corean Chronicles

1 - Legacies (Oct-2002)
2 - Darknesses (Sep-2003)
3 - Scepters (Jul-2004)
4 - Alector's Choice (Jun-2005)
5 - Cadmian's Choice (Apr-2006)
6 - Soarer's Choice (Nov-2006)
7 - The Lord-Protector's Daughter (Nov-2008)
8 - Lady-Protector (Mar-2011)

The Ecolitan Matter

1 - The Ecologic Envoy (Sep-1986)
2 - The Ecolitan Operation (Jun-1989)
3 - The Ecologic Secession (Jul-1990)
4 - The Ecolitan Enigma (Jun-1997)
5 - Empire and Ecolitan (Jul-2001)
6 - Ecolitan Prime (Nov-2003)

The Forever Hero

1 - Dawn for a Distant Earth (Jan-1987)
2 - The Silent Warrior (Dec-1987)
3 - In Endless Twilight (Feb-1992)

Ghosts

1 - Of Tangible Ghosts (Oct-1994)
2 - The Ghost of the Revelator (Sep-1998)
3 - Ghost of the White Nights (Oct-2001)

The Grand Illusion

1 - Isolate (Nov-2021)
2 - Councilor (Aug-2022)
3 - Contrarian (Aug-2023)

The Imager Portfolio

1 - Imager (Mar-2009)
2 - Imager's Challenge (Oct-2009)
3 - Imager's Intrigue (Jul-2010)
4 - Scholar (Nov-2011)
5 - Princeps (May-2012)
6 - Imager's Battalion (Jan-2013)
7 - Antiagon Fire (Jun-2013)
8 - Rex Regis (Jan-2014)
9 - Madness in Solidar (Mar-2015)
10 - Treachery's Tools (Oct-2016)
11 - Assassin's Price (Jul-2017)
12 - Endgames (Feb-2019)

The Saga of Recluce

1 - The Magic of Recluce (May-1991)
2 - The Towers of the Sunset (Aug-1992)
3 - The Magic Engineer (Mar-1994)
4 - The Order War (Jan-1995)
5 - The Death of Chaos (Sep-1995)
6 - Fall of Angels (Jun-1996)
7 - The Chaos Balance (Jun-1998)
8 - The White Order (Apr-1999)
9 - Colors of Chaos (Jun-1998)
10 - Magi'I of Cyador (Apr-2000)
11 - Scion of Cyador (Sep-2000)
12 - Wellspring of Chaos (Apr-2004)
13 - Ordermaster (Jan-2005)
14 - Natural Ordermage (Sep-2007)
15 - Mage-Guard of Hamor (Aug-2008)
16 - Arms-Commander (Jan-2010)
17 - Cyador's Heirs (May-2014)
18 - Heritage of Cyador (Nov-2014)
19 - The Mongrel Mage (Nov-2017)
20 - Outcasts of Order (Jun-2018)
21 - The Mage-Fire War (Aug-2019)
22 - Fairhaven Rising (Feb-2021)
23 - From the Forest (Jan-2024)
24 - Overcaptain (Nov-2024)

The Spellsong Cycle

1 - The Soprano Sorceress (Feb-1997)
2 - The Spellsong War (Jan-1998)
3 - Darksong Rising (Dec-1999)
4 - The Shadow Sorceress (Jun-2001)
5 - Shadowsinger (Feb-2002)

Timegods

1 - The Fires of Paratime (Nov-1982)
2 - The Timegod (Sep-1993)
3 - Timediver's Dawn (Jul-1992)

Book List in Order: 89 titles

  • The Fires of Paratime

    Timegods - 1

  • Hammer of Darkness

    A TERRIFYING JOURNEY Martin Martel had become a dangerous man. The revelation that he had the gift of ESP, a power that belonged only to the gods, was certain cause for the respected scholar to be banished from the planet Karnak and exiled to an o...

  • The Ecologic Envoy

    The Ecolitan Matter - 1

    ONE MAN AGAINST THE EMPIRE! Four hundred years after winning Secession from the Terran Empire, the star system Accord wants to sign a simple trade treaty on microchip export tariffs. But if the agreement is so minor, why is Professor Nathaniel Wha...

  • Dawn for a Distant Earth

    The Forever Hero - 1

    DEVILKID The Empire spanned the galaxy, leaving abandoned the ruins of old Earth--a frigid devastation of gray deserts and poison, ice storms and land-spouts; a wasteland home only to coyotes and rats, degenerate shambletowners and feral devilkids...

  • The Silent Warrior

    The Forever Hero - 2

    Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intellige...

  • The Ecolitan Operation

    The Ecolitan Matter - 2

    IN THE DAYS OF THE EMPIRE The Empire spans the human galaxy, its agents everywhere. Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, intelligent and highly trained, succeeds too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship and the result ...

  • The Ecologic Secession

    The Ecolitan Matter - 3

    IN THE DAYS OF THE EMPIRE Spanning the human galaxy, the Empire is all-powerful, its agents everywhere, its military forces huge and technologically advanced. No human ox alien forces have ever been able to stand against its power. But now, on ...

  • The Magic of Recluce

    The Saga of Recluce - 1

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Magic of Recluce begins his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Young Lerris yearns to find a place in the world better suited to his skills and temper...

  • The Green Progression

    A shocking novel of what could happen if the fanatical defense of the environment crossed the line into deadly terror. When environmental consultant Jack McDarvid's boss is killed in a shootout near the Capitol, McDarvid becomes enmeshed in a diaboli...



  • In Endless Twilight

    The Forever Hero - 3

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.s first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero. Thousands of years in...

  • Timediver's Dawn

    Timegods - 3

    L.E. Modesitt's "Timediver's Dawn" was first published in mass market format. Although somewhat reminiscent of the "Change War" stories of Fritz Lieber, and though science fiction, it contains intriguing connections to the fantasy universe of Modesi...

  • The Towers of the Sunset

    The Saga of Recluce - 2

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Towers of the Sunset continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Rather than accepting a marriage arranged by his mother, the powerful military matr...

  • The Timegod

    Timegods - 2

    This omnibus contains two novels by L.E. Modesitt that comprise a larger story unit, Timedivers Dawn and The Timegod (expanded from his first novel, The Fires of Paratime). They were formerly published in mass market original form and are now combine...

  • The Magic Engineer

    The Saga of Recluce - 3

    The chronicles of the magical island of Recluce continue as young Dorrin, fascinated by forbidden science, goes into exile in the lands of Chaos, where he unwillingly invents devices of war to save his land from the evil Chaos wizards....

  • Of Tangible Ghosts

    Ghosts - 1

    Bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr. begins his Ghost Books series with Of Tangible Ghosts in a strange alternate reality where ghosts are no longer mere superstition, but physical realities.When two real ghosts and the records of a murdered resear...

  • The Order War

    The Saga of Recluce - 4

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Order War continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.The deadly White Wizards of Fairhaven, wielding the forces of chaos, threaten the ancient m...

  • The Death of Chaos

    The Saga of Recluce - 5

    Candor is being invaded and Lerris must become the greatest wizard of all time -- or see his whole world destroyed!...

  • The Parafaith War

    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 a...

  • Fall of Angels

    The Saga of Recluce - 6

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Fall of Angels continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Nylan, an engineer and builder, plans to raise a great tower on the plateau known as the R...



  • Adiamante

    After ten thousand years in exile, the cyber-warriors return in their fleet of spaceships to the planet that rejected them: Earth.Other Series by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.The Saga of RecluceThe Imager PortfolioThe Corean ChroniclesThe Spellsong CycleThe Gho...

  • The Soprano Sorceress

    The Spellsong Cycle - 1

    When Anna Marshall is transported from her boring and frustrating life in Ames, Iowa, to the very different world of Erde, she's angry and confused, but soon finds out that for the first time in her life she's uniquely powerful. In Iowa Anna was a mu...

  • The Ecolitan Enigma

    The Ecolitan Matter - 4

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s science fiction novels have been pleasing readers for nearly two decades. Among his earlier novels were three books set in the future universe of the Ecolitan Institute. Now Modesitt returns to that world to tell another story of...

  • The Spellsong War

    The Spellsong Cycle - 2

    The Spellsong War, the second book in New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle about a singer and music instructor at Iowa State University who gets far more than she expected when she is magical...

  • Colors of Chaos

    The Saga of Recluce - 9

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Colors of Chaos continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Now a full mage in the White Order, Cerryl must prove himself indispensable to Jeslek, th...

  • The Chaos Balance

    The Saga of Recluce - 7

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The Chaos Balance continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Nylan, the only man among the matriarchal band of “angels” marooned on the high pla...

  • The Ghost of the Revelator

    Ghosts - 2

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr., author of the Imager Portfolio and the Saga of Recluce, continues his Ghost Book series, in a world where ghosts are very real, in this sequel to Of Tangible Ghosts. Professor Johan Eschbach had hoped for a quiet life in retiremen...

  • The White Order

    The Saga of Recluce - 8

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s The White Order continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Powerful white mages killed Cerryl's father to protect their control of the world's magic.Ra...

  • Darksong Rising

    The Spellsong Cycle - 3

    Darksong Rising, the third book in New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle about a singer and music instructor at Iowa State University who gets far more than she expected when she is magically ...

  • Magi'I of Cyador

    The Saga of Recluce - 10

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Magi'i of Cyador continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.A diligent student of remarkable talent, Lorn lacks only the single most coveted attribu...



  • Gravity Dreams

    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...

  • Scion of Cyador

    The Saga of Recluce - 11

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Scion of Cyador continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one of the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Having survived an extended stint fighting both barbarian raiders and the giant beasts of...

  • The Octagonal Raven

    Being a child of wealth hasn't made life easy for Daryn Alwyn. But then, he didn't want 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 ...

  • The Shadow Sorceress

    The Spellsong Cycle - 4

    The Shadow Sorceress, the fourth book in New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle begins a new story arc for a new cycle of tales starring a new heroine who must face a series of deadly political...

  • Empire and Ecolitan

    The Ecolitan Matter - 5

    This is an omnibus of two early novels in New York Times bestselling author L.E. Modesitt's Ecolitan Matter series, The Ecolitan Operation and The Ecologic Secession. Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, succeeds all too well in ov...

  • Ghost of the White Nights

    Ghosts - 3

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr., author of Of Tangible Ghosts and The Ghost of the Revelator, sets the Ghost Books series in a fascinating alternative world in which ghosts are real, the United States never came into existence, and Russia is still ruled by the R...

  • Shadowsinger

    The Spellsong Cycle - 5

    The Shadow Sorceress, concludes New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle begins a new story arc for a new cycle of tales starring a new heroine who must face a series of deadly political and mili...

  • Archform: Beauty

    Most readers recognize L. E. Modesitt, Jr., as the author of a favorite fantasy series, be it The Magic of Recluce or The Spellsong Cycle. It's always a special treat when he turns his hand again to science fiction and Archform: Beauty is no exceptio...

  • Legacies

    The Corean Chronicles - 1

    --A New Age Begins-- Millennia ago, a magical disaster caused the f a great civilization that spanned a.continent, ended a golden age. Corus today is a world of cont ing countries, of struggling humans, strange animals and elusive supernatural cre...

  • Darknesses

    The Corean Chronicles - 2

    A thousand years after a magical disaster ended the unified rule of the Duarchy, Corus is a world of contending nations, struggling humans, strange animals, and elusive supernatural creatures. Much has been lost, but Corus is still a land of magical ...



  • The Ethos Effect

    Commander Van C. Albert is a good officer with bad luck. It seems to have changed when he becomes a military attache on Scandya, and prevents an assassination, but he wakes from a coma to find himself decorated, promoted and summarily retired. Then t...

  • Ecolitan Prime

    The Ecolitan Matter - 6

    This is an omnibus from New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr., This omnibus concludes one of his most powerful science fiction series, the Ecolitan series. It contains book three, The Ecologic Envoy, and book four, The Ecolitan Enigma...

  • Wellspring of Chaos

    The Saga of Recluce - 12

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Wellspring of Chaos continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Kharl's life has been always been as ordered and dependable as the barrels he makes. His...

  • Darknesses

  • Scepters

    The Corean Chronicles - 3

    With each new volume of the Corean Chronicles we learn more about the magical underpinnings of the fascinating world of Corus, as we follow the continuing adventures of the reluctant hero, Alucius. In Legacies he became the first Iron Valley militiam...

  • Flash

    Return to the future of Archform: Beauty. In the twenty-fourth century, Earth is vastly changed. Ecological and biological catastrophe have raged across the planet, but for the survivors, it is a world of plenty. Even the poorest live in abundance, a...

  • Ordermaster

    The Saga of Recluce - 13

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Ordermaster continues his bestselling fantasy series the Saga of Recluce, which is one the most popular in contemporary epic fantasy.Kharl has no sooner taken possession of the estate bestowed upon him for his aid in quelling a r...

  • Alector's Choice

    The Corean Chronicles - 4

    RETURN TO CORUS Alector's Choice takes place several thousand years before the events chronicled in the Legacies Pilogy, at the time when Corus is ruled by the Talent-magic of the Duarchy. The Myrmidons of Justice command the skies riding their fe...

  • Ghosts of Columbia

    Here are two adventures from L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Ghost Books series -- Of Tangible Ghosts and Ghost of the Revelator -- that bring Johan Eschbach out of his retirement and happy marriage in northern New Bruges and into danger and intrigue. This ed...

  • The Eternity Artifact

    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...



  • Cadmian's Choice

    The Corean Chronicles - 5

    Corus has been redesigned to become the new home of a superior race from a distant world whose very life depends on drawing sustenance from the biological life force of a planet. Their plans are supervised by a staff of Alectors, who rule the world. ...

  • Soarer's Choice

    The Corean Chronicles - 6

    L.E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to the world of Corus and concludes the trilogy of the intertwined stories of Dainyl, the Alector, and Mykel, the native soldier, which began in Alector's Choice and Cadmian's Choice. The civilization of the Alectors, w...

  • The Elysium Commission

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr. 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 ourswith a utopian city on one of the planets. The question is, an uto...

  • Natural Ordermage

    The Saga of Recluce - 14

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr. begins a new Recluce story in The Natural Ordermage, the first of two volumes set mostly on the continent of Hamor, far across the sea from Recluce where the story begins, a new setting for this series that fans will be eager to e...

  • Viewpoints Critical

    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 kerne...

  • Mage-Guard of Hamor

    The Saga of Recluce - 15

    Acclaimed author L. E. Modesitt, Jr. continues his new Recluce story in Mage-Guard of Hamor, the second of two volumes set mostly on the continent of Hamor, far across the sea from Recluce, where the story began. Rahl was a young apprentice on th...

  • The Lord-Protector's Daughter

    The Corean Chronicles - 7

    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 h...

  • Imager

    The Imager Portfolio - 1

    Imager is the beginning of a whole new fantasy in a whole new magical world from the bestselling creator of Recluce. Although Rhennthyl is the son of a leading wool merchant in L'Excelsis, the capital of Solidar, the most powerful nation on Terahnar,...

  • Haze

    What lies beneath the fog of 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-domina...

  • Imager's Challenge

    The Imager Portfolio - 2

    Still recovering from injuries received in foiling the murderous plot of a Ferran envoy, Rhenn begins new duties as imager liaison to the Civic Patrol of L’Excelsis. While dealing with his new duties, which include patrolling some of the most dang...

  • Arms-Commander

    The Saga of Recluce - 16

    Arms-Commander takes place ten years after the end of The Chaos Balance and tells the story of the legendary Saryn. The keep of Westwind, in the cold mountainous heights called the Roof of the World, is facing attack by the adjoining land of Gallos. ...

  • Imager's Intrigue

    The Imager Portfolio - 3

    IN IMAGER, the first book of the Imager Portfolio, we met Rhennthyl, an apprentice portrait artist whose life was changed by a disastrous fire. But the blaze that took his master's life and destroyed his livelihood revealed a secret power previously ...

  • Empress of Eternity

    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 str...

  • Lady-Protector

    The Corean Chronicles - 8

    A new novel of Mykella, the young woman introduced in The Lord-Protector's Daughter. Though a bloody coup has made Mykella ruler of her land, it has left her and her two sisters bereft of family and uncertain of their friends. Worse, an examination o...

  • Scholar

    The Imager Portfolio - 4

    Hundreds of years before the time of Imager, the continent of Lydar is fragmented. Years of war have consolidated five nations into three--Bovaria, Telaryn, and Antiago. Quaeryt is a scholar and a friend of Bhayar, the young ruler of Telaryn. Worrie...

  • Princeps

    The Imager Portfolio - 5

    The thrilling follow-up to Scholar -- in which, after discovering a coup attempt and preventing a bloody civil war, Quaeryt was appointed princeps of Tilbor -- begins a new episode in the young Imager's life. Now second only to the governor, and stil...

  • Imager's Battalion

    The Imager Portfolio - 6

    The sequel to the New York Times bestselling Princeps follows magical hero Quaeryt as he leads history's first Imager fighting force into war. Given the rank of subcommander by his wife's brother, Lord Bhayar, the ruler of Telaryn, Quaeryt joins an i...

  • Antiagon Fire

    The Imager Portfolio - 7

    In L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Antiagon Fire, the hard-won battles fought in Imager's Battalion have earned Quaeryt a promotion to commander, as well as an assignment to convince the Pharsi High Council in the nation of Khel to submit to Lord Bhayar's rule,...

  • The One-Eyed Man

    The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes anagathics...

  • Rex Regis

    The Imager Portfolio - 8

    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 in L.E. Modesitt's Rex Regis, Book 8 in The Imager Portfolio. Only the land ...

  • Cyador's Heirs

    The Saga of Recluce - 17

    Decades after the fall of Cyador, its survivors have reestablished themselves in Cigoerne, a fertile country coveted by hostile neighbors in less hospitable lands. Young Lerial, the second son of Duke Kiedron, lives in the shadow of his older brother...

  • Heritage of Cyador

    The Saga of Recluce - 18

    From New York Times bestselling author L.E. Modesitt comes "Heritage of Cyador," the new novel in the Saga of Recluce. Scarcely a year after the events of "Cyador's Heirs," Lerial uses his mastery of Order and Chaos, the competing natural forces t...

  • Madness in Solidar

    The Imager Portfolio - 9

    Four centuries after its founding, Solidar's Collegium of Imagers is in decline, the exploits of its founder, the legendary Quaeryt, largely forgotten. The Collegium is so lacking in leadership that the dying Maitre must summon Alastar, an obscure bu...

  • Solar Express

    You can't militarize space. This one rule has led to decades of peaceful development of space programs worldwide. However, increasing resource scarcity and a changing climate on Earth's surface is causing some interested parties to militarize, namely...

  • Haze and The Hammer of Darkness

    Two amazing science fiction adventures by the bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Haze and The Hammer of Darkness!HazeWhat lies beneath the millions of orbiting nanotech satellites that shroud the world called Haze?Major Keir Roget's mission reve...

  • Treachery's Tools

    The Imager Portfolio - 10

    Treachery's Tools is L. E. Modesitt's tenth novel in the New York Times bestselling Imager Portfolio fantasy series and begins thirteen years after the events of Madness in Solidar. Alastar has settled into his role as the Maitre of the Collegium....

  • Recluce Tales

    For over a thousand years, Order and Chaos have molded the island of Recluce. The Saga of Recluce chronicles the history of this world through eighteen books, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s most expansive and bestselling fantasy series. Recluce Tales: Stor...

  • Assassin's Price

    The Imager Portfolio - 11

    Six years have passed since the failed uprising of the High Holders, and the man behind the conspiracy is where the rex and Maitre Alastar can keep an eye on him. Charyn has come of age and desperately wants to learn more so he can become an effec...

  • The Mongrel Mage

    The Saga of Recluce - 19

    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...

  • Outcasts of Order

    The Saga of Recluce - 20

    Beltur, an Order mage, discovers he possesses frightening powers not seen for hundreds of years. With his new abilities, he survives the war in Elparta and saves the lives of all. However, victory comes with a price. His fellow mages now see him as a...

  • Endgames

    The Imager Portfolio - 12

    Endgames is the twelfth novel in L. E. Modesitt, Jr's, New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series the Imager Portfolio, and the third book in the story arc that began with Treachery's Tools and Assassin's Price. Solidar is in chaos. Charyn,...

  • The Mage-Fire War

    The Saga of Recluce - 21

    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. A USA Today Bestseller!Once again, prejudices against the use of chaos magic...

  • Quantum Shadows

    Bestselling author of The Mongrel Mage, L. E. Modesitt, Jr's Quantum Shadows blends science fiction, myth, and legend in an adventure that pits old gods and new against one another in a far future world. On a world called Heaven, the ten major...

  • Fairhaven Rising

    The Saga of Recluce - 22

    Modesitt continues his bestselling Saga of Recluce with his twenty-second book in the long-running series. Fairhaven Rising follows The Mage-Fire War.Sixteen years have passed since the mage Beltur helped to found the town of Fairhaven, and Taelya, B...

  • Isolate

    The Grand Illusion - 1

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of The Mongrel Mage, has a brand new gaslamp political fantasy Isolate. Industrialization. Social unrest. Underground movements. Government corruption and surveillance. Something is about to give. Stef...

  • Councilor

    The Grand Illusion - 2

    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. Welcome to the Grand Illusion.Continued poor harvests and ...

  • Contrarian

    The Grand Illusion - 3

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of Saga of Recluce and the Imager Portfolio, continues his gaslamp political fantasy series which began with Isolate and Councilor. Welcome to the Grand IllusionIn Contrarian, protests against unemployment and ...

  • The Imager Portfolio, Volume III

    This ebundle of The Imager Portfolio includes: Madness in Solidar, Treachery's Tools, Assassin's Price, and Endgames.An innovative and enchanting series, it spans centuries and millennia in the refreshing Modesitt fashion that will delight his fans a...

  • From the Forest

    The Saga of Recluce - 23

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr. continues the Saga of Recluce, the long-running, best-selling epic fantasy series. In a new story arc, From the Forest follows the early life of a man known by many names depending on who you ask -- hero, tyrant, emperor.Alayiaka...

  • Overcaptain

    The Saga of Recluce - 24

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr. continues the Saga of Recluce, the long-running, best-selling epic fantasy series. Overcaptain, the sequel to From the Forest, continues to follow the early life of a man known by many names depending on who you ask -- hero, tyran...

Award-Winning Books by L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Shadowsinger
2002 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Epic Fantasy Novel
Wellspring of Chaos
2004 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Epic Fantasy Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

L.E. Modesitt Jr. has published 89 books.

The next book by L.E. Modesitt Jr., Overcaptain, will be published in November 2024.

The first book by L.E. Modesitt Jr., The Fires of Paratime, was published in November 1982.

Yes. L.E. Modesitt Jr. has 9 series.
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