L. E Modesitt
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Someone is trying to kill Daryn Alwyn. Born to privilege, with pre-selected genetic advantages and the best nanotech augmentation his father's fabulous money can buy, Daryn spurned the lucrative family Media Network to seek his own path, a crafty raven among soaring eagles. After serving with distinction as a space pilot in the military, he enjoys success as a media consultant. But when he finds himself the target of sophisticated murder attempts,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
L.E. Modesitt 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 ours --and a utopian city on one of the planets. The question becomes, though, an utopia for whom? And why is a shady entertainment mogul subsidizing the scientist? More critical than that, does this new universe require the destruction of a portion --or all -- of our universe...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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.
4) Flash
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
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, and the upper class, the ascendant, command technological marvels.
Ten-years ago, Jonat deVrai was a rising star in the Marines. But, he shocked his superiors by walking away from the Corps after witnessing...
5) Adiamante
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
After ten-thousand years in exile, the cyber-warriors return in their fleet of spaceships to the planet that rejected them: Earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
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 retirement from the intelligence service, teaching environmental science and living with his new wife, but an unusual invitation from the Mormon nation of Deseret inexorably drags him back into the spy business,...
9) Legacies
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Author
Series
Spellsong cycle ; 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A feminist fantasy starring Anna Marshal, a bored singer in Iowa. Wishing for a more liberated life, she is whisked into a parallel universe where music is magic, and helps to defeat an invader with her music. But as she subsequently finds out, even in fantasy land there is gender politics.
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce ; 2
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
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 when scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann, travelling the void just beyond the edge of the Galaxy at such a high speed that it cannot be natural. Its continents and oceans have been...
13) The ethos effect
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Ethos Effect combines hard science fiction adventure with an insightful examination of the relationship between the sacred and the secular.
Set two-centuries later, after the events of The Parafaith War, Commander Van C. Albert, the resourceful officer who once defeated a larger enemy ship, indirectly caused the loss of a civilian liner. Cleared by the board of inquiry, but an embarrassment to the high command, he finds himself in dead-end assignments.
Seriously...
16) Darknesses
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
17) Haze
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
What lies beneath 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-dominated government that rules Earth and the colonized planets.
18) Soarer's choice
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Book
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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,...
19) Gravity dreams
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In the distant future a young philosopher is forced to flee his homeland. The hero hates anything to do with technology, but to survive in the land of exile he has to embrace it and in the process becomes a famous space pilot. By the author of The Ghost of the Revelator.
Author
Series
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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...