# L. E. Modesitt Jr. bibliography

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

## Series
### Fantasy fiction series
#### The Saga of Recluce (internal chronological order)

* From the Forest (2024)
* Overcaptain (November 12, 2024)
* Sub-Majer's Challenge (August 2025)
* Last of the First (2025)
* Magi'i of Cyador (2001)
* Scion of Cyador (2001)
* Fall of Angels (1996)
* The Chaos Balance (1997)
* Arms-Commander (2010)
* Cyador's Heirs (2014)
* Heritage of Cyador (2014)
* The Mongrel Mage (2017)
* Outcasts of Order (2018)
* The Mage-Fire War (2019)
* Fairhaven Rising (2021)
* The Towers of the Sunset (1992)
* The White Order (1998)
* The Magic Engineer (1994)
* Colors of Chaos (1999)
* Natural Ordermage (2007)
* Mage-Guard of Hamor (2008)
* The Order War (1995)
* Wellspring of Chaos (2004)
* Ordermaster (2005)
* The Magic of Recluce (1991)
* 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)

#### 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), 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.)
* 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)
* Councilor (2022)
* Contrarian (2023)
* Legalist (2025/2026?) Takes place more than 400 years before Isolate.

### 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
* Dawn for a Distant Earth (1987)
* The Silent Warrior (1987)
* In Endless Twilight (1988)
* The Forever Hero (2000)—Omnibus, combines the above three books

#### The Ecolitan Institute novels (internal chronological order)

* The Ecolitan Operation (1989)
* The Ecologic Secession (1990)
* The Ecologic Envoy (1986)
* 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

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

#### Archform

* Archform: Beauty (2000), ISBN 978-0-7653-0433-9
* Flash (2004), ISBN 978-0-7653-1128-3

## Non-series science fiction

* The Hammer of Darkness (1985), ISBN 978-0-380-89798-8
* Adiamante (1996), ISBN 978-0-312-86021-9. Review
* Gravity Dreams (2000), ISBN 978-0-312-86826-0
* The Octagonal Raven (2001), ISBN 978-0-312-87720-0
* The Eternity Artifact (2005), ISBN 978-0-7653-1464-2
* The Elysium Commission (2007), ISBN 978-0-7653-1720-9. Review
* Haze (2009), ISBN 978-0-7653-2302-6
* Empress of Eternity (2010), ISBN 978-0-7653-2664-5
* The One-Eyed Man: A Fugue, with Winds and Accompaniment (2013), ISBN 978-0-7653-3544-9
* Solar Express (2015), ISBN 978-0-765-38195-8
* Quantum Shadows (2020), ISBN 978-1-250-22920-5

## Collaborations

* The Green Progression (with Bruce Scott Levinson) (1992)

## Collections

* Viewpoints Critical (2008) – collection of short stories
* Recluce Tales (2017) - collection of short stories that take place in the Recluce world

## Short fiction

* "The Great American Economy" (1973), Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, May 1973**
* "A House by Any Other Name" (1974), Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November 1974
* "Came the Revolution" (1977), Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1977
* "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
* "Precision Set" (2001), On Spec Spring 2001**
* "The Pilots (2002)", In the Shadow of the Wall: Vietnam Stories that Might Have Been (ed. Byron R. Tetrick)**
* "The Dock to Heaven" (2003), Low Port (ed. Sharon Lee & Steve Miller)**
* "The Swan Pilot" (2004), Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy (ed. Andrew M. Greeley)**
* "Fallen Angel" (2004), Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (ed. Al Sarrantonio)**
* "The Swan Pilot" (2004), Emerald Magic (ed. Andrew M. Greeley; Tor Books)**
* "News Clips Recovered from the NYC Ruins" (2005), The Leading Edge, Brigham Young University Press**
* "Ghost Mission" (2006), from Slipstreams (ed. Martin Greenberg and John Helfers) (DAW Books)**
* "Sisters of Sarronnyn, Sisters of Westwind" (2006), Jim Baen's Universe, August 2006**
* "Spec-Ops" (2007), Future Weapons of War (ed. Joe Haldeman and Martin Greenberg; Baen Books)**
* "The Difference" (2007), Man vs. Machine (ed. Martin Greenberg and John Helfers; DAW Books)**
* "Black Ordermage" (2008)**
* "Beyond the Obvious Wind" (2008)**
* "Always Outside the Lines" (2008)**
* "Life-Suspension" (2009), Federations (ed. John Joseph Adams, Prime Books)
* "Astralis" (2009) Jim Baen's Universe January 2009
* "The Stranger" Speculative Horizons (ed. Patrick St-Denis) Subterranean Press 2010
* "New World Blues" Tor.com February 2012
* "The Bronze Man of Mars" 2012 Under the Moons of Mars (ed. John Joseph Adams) Simon & Schuster
* "A More Perfect Union" (2013), The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination (ed. John Joseph Adams)
* "Gold and Glory" 2017 All Hail Our Robot Conquerors (ed. Patricia Bray and Joshua Palmatier) ZNB Books
* "The Liberator" 2018 [The Razor's Edge] (ed. Troy Bucher and Joshua Palmatier) ZNB Books
* "The Fallen" 2020 Fantastic Hope (ed. Laurell K. Hamilton and William McCaskey) Berkley
* "Evanescence" 2020 Shapers of Worlds (ed. Edward Willett) Shadowpaw Press
* "The Unexpected Dachshund" Instinct:An Animal Rescuers Anthology (ed. L.J. Hachmeister) Source7 Productions
"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

* Story Behind Antiagon Fire – "The Antiagon Fire That Almost Wasn't" (2013), from Story Behind the Book: Volume 1