L. E. Modesitt Jr. bibliography

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This is a complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author L. E. Modesitt Jr.

Contents

Series

Fantasy fiction series

The Saga of Recluce (internal chronological order)

  1. From the Forest (2024) [1]
  2. Overcaptain (November 12, 2024) [2]
  3. Sub-Majer's Challenge (2024) [3]
  4. Last of the First (2024/2025) [4]
  5. Magi'i of Cyador (2001)
  6. Scion of Cyador (2001)
  7. Fall of Angels (1996)
  8. The Chaos Balance (1997)
  9. Arms-Commander (2010)
  10. Cyador's Heirs (2014)
  11. Heritage of Cyador (2014) [5]
  12. The Mongrel Mage (2017)
  13. Outcasts of Order (2018)
  14. The Mage-Fire War (2019)
  15. Fairhaven Rising (2021)
  16. The Towers of the Sunset (1992)
  17. The White Order (1998)
  18. The Magic Engineer (1994)
  19. Colors of Chaos (1999)
  20. Natural Ordermage (2007)
  21. Mage-Guard of Hamor (2008)
  22. The Order War (1995)
  23. Wellspring of Chaos (2004)
  24. Ordermaster (2005)
  25. The Magic of Recluce (1991)
  26. The Death of Chaos (1995)

Spellsong Cycle

Set in the world of Erde, where song has magical power – and exacts a terrible price.

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

The Corean Chronicles

Set on the world of Corus (or Acorus), where strange and dangerous beasts roam and people with magical Talent can perform astonishing feats.

  • Legacies (2002)
  • Darknesses (2003)
  • Scepters (2004)
  • Alector's Choice (2005)
  • Cadmian's Choice (2006)
  • Soarer's Choice (2006)
  • The Lord-Protector's Daughter (2008)
  • Lady-Protector (2011) [6]

The Imager Portfolio

The Imager Portfolio is set on the world of Terahnar, where a small number of people are imagers, who have the power to create objects through visualization; if uncontrolled, imaging can lead to the death of the imager.

  • Imager (2009), ISBN   0-7653-2034-7
  • Imager's Challenge (2009), ISBN   0-7653-2126-2
  • Imager's Intrigue (2010), ISBN   0-7653-2562-4
  • Scholar (2011; new cast of characters, taking place, chronologically, before the first three books [7] ), ISBN   978-0-7653-2955-4
  • Princeps (2012), ISBN   978-0-7653-3095-6
  • Imager’s Battalion (2013), ISBN   978-0-7653-3283-7
  • Antiagon Fire (2013), ISBN   978-0765-33457-2
  • Rex Regis (2014), ISBN   978-0765-33634-7
  • Madness in Solidar (2015), ISBN   978-0765-37985-6 (First in a set that takes place some 380 years after the Wars of Consolidation. [7] )
  • Treachery’s Tools (2016), ISBN   978-0-7653-8540-6
  • Assassin's Price (2017), ISBN   978-0-7653-9047-9
  • Endgames (2019), ISBN   978-1-250-29364-0

The Grand Illusion

  • Isolate (2021) [8]
  • Councilor (2022) [9]
  • Contrarian (2023) [10]
  • Legalist (2025/2026?) Takes place more than 400 years before Isolate. [11]

Science fiction series

Timegod's World

Drawing on Norse legend, these books follow the story of the time-traveling Immortals of Query, and their two greatest heroes – who both save and doom their people

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

The Forever Hero

In the far future, when Earth is a devastated ruin, an immortal is born, wishes one great wish, and takes on a great task

  1. Dawn for a Distant Earth (1987)
  2. The Silent Warrior (1987)
  3. In Endless Twilight (1988)
  • The Forever Hero (2000)—Omnibus, combines the above three books

The Ecolitan Institute novels (internal chronological order)

  1. The Ecolitan Operation (1989)
  2. The Ecologic Secession (1990)
  3. The Ecologic Envoy (1986)
  4. The Ecolitan Enigma (1997)
  • Empire & Ecolitan (2001) Omnibus of The Ecolitan Operation and The Ecologic Secession
  • Ecolitan Prime (2003) Omnibus of The Ecologic Envoy and The Ecolitan Enigma

Ghost Novels

SF/spy stories, set in an alternate world

  • Of Tangible Ghosts (1994)
  • The Ghost of the Revelator (1998)
  • Ghost of the White Nights (2001)
  • Ghosts of Columbia (2005): Omnibus, combining Of Tangible Ghosts and The Ghost of the Revelator

Parafaith Universe

Archform

Non-series science fiction

Collaborations

Collections

Short fiction

"Stories listed above marked with a double-asterisk are included in L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Viewpoints Critical: Selected Stories (New York: Tor Books, 2008), ISBN   978-0-7653-1857-2. The three stories dated 2008 appeared for the first time in this book.

Short non-fiction

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