
L. E. (Leland Exton) Modesitt, Jr. is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, lived in Washington, D.C. for 20 years, then moved to New Hampshire in 1989 where he met his wife. They relocated to Cedar City, Utah in 1993. He has worked as a Navy pilot, lifeguard, delivery boy, unpaid radio disc jockey, real estate agent, market research analyst, director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant for a Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer and writer in residence. In addition to his novels, Mr. Modesitt has published technical studies and articles, columns, poetry, and a number of science fiction stories. His first short story, "The Great American Economy", was published in 1973 in Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact. -Wikipedia
Series
Books

Princeps
2012

Councilor
2022

Arms-Commander
2010

The Timegod
1982

Haze and The Hammer of Darkness
2016

The Silent Warrior
1987

The Ecolitan Enigma
1997

Darksong Rising
1999

New World Blues
2012

Cadmian's Choice
2006

Endgames
2019

The Elysium Commission
2007

Overcaptain
2024

Imager
2009

The Green Progression
1991

The Eternity Artifact
2005

Fairhaven Rising
2021

Alector's Choice
2005

The Ecolitan Operation
2010

Natural Ordermage
2007

The Magic of Recluce
1991

In Endless Twilight
1988

Magi'i of Cyador
2000

Legacies
2002

Colors of Chaos
1998

The Shadow Sorceress
2001

Flash
2004

From the Forest
2024

The Order War
1995

Quantum Shadows
2020

The Ecologic Envoy
1986

Scepters
2004

Contrarian
2023

Madness in Solidar
2015

Der Malachit-Thron
2003

Haze
2009

Timediver's Dawn
1992

The Hammer of Darkness
1985

The Mongrel Mage
2017

Rex Regis
2014

Of Tangible Ghosts
1994

Imager's Battalion
2013

Scion of Cyador
2000

Soarer's Choice
2006

Isolate
2021

The Mage-Fire War
2019

Imager's Intrigue
2010

Dawn for a Distant Earth
1987

Outcasts of Order
2018

The Forest Girl
2017

Cyador's Heirs
2014

The Parafaith War
1996

Wellspring of Chaos
2004

The Octagonal Raven
2001

Viewpoints Critical
Selected Stories
2008

The Magic Engineer
1994

The Ghost of the Revelator
1998

Treachery's Tools
2016

Gravity Dreams
1999

Scholar
2011

The One-Eyed Man
A Fugue, with Winds and Accompaniment
2013

The Lord-Protector's Daughter
2008

Adiamante
1996

Sturm der Barbaren
2002

The Ethos Effect
2003

Darknesses
2003

The White Order
1998

Ghost of the White Nights
2001

Archform
Beauty
2002

Shadowsinger
2002

Assassin's Price
2017

Fall of Angels
1996

Ordermaster
2005

Mage-Guard of Hamor
2008

The Soprano Sorceress
1997

The Spellsong War
1998

Antiagon Fire
2013

Empress of Eternity
2010

Der Magier von Fairhaven
2001

The Towers of the Sunset
1992

The Death of Chaos
1995

Lady-Protector
2011

Solar Express
2015

The Ecologic Secession
1990

Instinct
An Animal Rescuers Anthology
2023

Die Waffenhändler von Hamor
2000

The Chaos Balance
1997

Heritage of Cyador
2014

The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
2013

Imager's Challenge
2009