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From the Forest
L. E. Modesitt
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R544
Discovery Miles 5 440
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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
Illusion In Contrarian, protests against unemployment and poor
harvests have become armed riots as the people sink deeper into
poverty. They look to a government struggling to emerge from
corruption and conspiracy. Recently elected to the Council of
Sixty-Six, Steffan Dekkard is the first Councilor who is an
Isolate, a man invulnerable to the emotional manipulations and
emotional surveillance of empaths--but not the recent bombing of
the Council Office Building by insurrectionists. His patron, the
Premier of the Council, has been assassinated, leaving Dekkard with
little first-hand political experience and few political allies.
Not only must Dekkard handle political infighting, and continued
assassination attempts, but it appears that someone high up in the
government and corporations has supplied arms and explosives to
insurrectionists. Insurrectionists who have succeeded in taking
over a naval cruiser that no one can seem to find. The Grand
Illusion Isolate Councilor Contrarian Other Series by L.E.
Modesitt, Jr. The Imager Portfolio The Corean Chronicles The
Spellsong Cycle The Ghost Books The Ecolitan Matter
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Towers of the Sunset
L. E. Modesitt
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R530
R461
Discovery Miles 4 610
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White Order (Paperback)
L. E. Modesitt
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R583
R499
Discovery Miles 4 990
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The saga of Recluce continues! In The Magic Engineer, we return to
the magical island of Recluce, where Dorrin, a young scion of the
Order magicians, is interested in forbidden knowledge, in the
working of machines. Promising, intelligent, but determined to
follow his passion for scientific knowledge, Dorrin can invent
machines. He is the Leonardo da Vinci of his age, but his insights
violate the rules of the Order magic of Recluce. Now he must go
into exile in the lands of Chaos to pursue his dangerous
inventions. Yet Darrin remains loyal to the idea of Order, and is
tortured by the knowledge that to preserve it he must constantly
create new devices for war. For the forces of the Chaos wizards are
moving across the land, devouring whole countries and creating an
empire-and their ultimate goal is the destruction of Recluce.
Johan Eschbach, Professor of Environmental Science and semi-retired
secret agent, and his lovely wife the world-renowned singer
Llysette, return for another adventure, this time in Russia, during
the long 'white nights' of summer. Their world is an intriguing
alternate present in which many things are changed. What we know as
the eastern U.S. is the nation of Columbia, and Russia is still
ruled by the Czars. Llysette is being sent by the Columbian
government on a cultural exchange mission to St. Petersburg. Johan
will, of course, accompany her, allowing him to work behind the
scenes on the oil concession in Russian Alaska that Columbia so
desperately needs. But even the oil shortage will fade to
insignificance when Johan discovers what new weapons technology the
Russians are developing, a threat even more fearsome than the
atomic bombs of Austro-Hungary. This is the concluding novel of the
of alternate history adventure trilogy that Modesitt began with "Of
Tangible Ghosts" and "The Ghost of the Revelator."
This is the first story collection ever from bestselling fantasy
and science fiction writer L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Modesitt began
publishing short fiction in the science fiction magazines in the
1970s, and this collection includes a selection of stories from the
whole of his career. Some of the early stories are kernels for his
early science fiction novels, others display the wide range of his
talents and interests, from satire to military adventure. This book
also contains three new stories that have never been published
before: "Black Ordermage," set in Modesitt's best-selling "Recluce"
series; "Beyond the Obvious Wind," set in his Corean Chronicles
universe; and "Always Outside the Lines," which is related to the
Ghost of Columbia books. The hardcover edition generated many
enthusiastic reviews, often including in-depth assessments of his
entire career. "Viewpoints Critical" is an excellent introduction
to the work of one of the major science fiction and fantasy writers
publishing today.
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Ordermaster (Paperback)
L. E. Modesitt
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R631
R546
Discovery Miles 5 460
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This new omnibus from L. E. Modesitt, Jr., includes the third and fourth of his four- volume Ecolitan series, The Ecologic Envoy and The Ecolitan Enigma, both starring Nathaniel Whaler. Four hundred years after winning secession from the Terran Empire (as chronicled in the earlier omnibus, Empire & Ecolitan), the star system Accord wants to sign a simple trade treaty with the Empire on microchip export tariffs. But if the agreement is so minor, why is Professor Nathaniel Whaler, chief economist at the Ecolitan Institute and his world's top commando killer, chosen as Accord's Envoy? Because the Imperial capital is a maddening bureaucracy of sniveling diplomats, high-profile figureheads, powers behind the throne, and spies---everywhere, spies. So the Envoy has to face red tape, politics, prejudice, as well as and a gauntlet of kidnappers, assassins, snipers, and bombs. And some ministry---but which?---doesn't want the treaty. In fact, some in the Empire still blame Accord for Earth's poisoning and for the defection of fifty star systems after the war between Imperial nuclear might and Ecolitan bio-ecological weaponry. A hidden cabal wants to fight that war again---even if, this time, the entire galaxy dies. And only Nathaniel Whaler, the Ecologic Envoy, has the power to stop the catastrophe. This omnibus concludes one of L. E. Modesitt's most powerful science fiction series.
Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, is intelligent and highly trained. But he succeeds all too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship--and the result is a new government inimical to the Empire and disgrace for Jimjoy. After surviving two assassination attempts, Jimjoy realizes that it's his own imperial superiors who want him dead; that, in fact, his worst enemies could become his best friends. He fights his way to safety on the planet Accord, where the Ecolitan Institute wins his loyalty and changes his identity. Now he is James Joyson Whaler, Ecolitan, in the middle of a war of independence against the inconceivably superior forces of the Empire.
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