of Candar.What Creslin doesn't know he stands in the way of their plot to subjugate the world.Saga of Recluce#1 The Magic of Recluce / #2 The Towers of Sunset / #3 The Order War / #4 The Magic Engineer / #5 The
The biggest fantasy from L.E. Modesitt, Jr. to date,COLORS OF CHAOSis the story of the White Chaos wizard Cerryl’s education in life and love, and his rise to power in the Magician’s guild of Fairhaven. This is the direct sequel toThe White Order, which told of Cerryl’s boyhoo...
The first panel I was on was “Making Money.” We discussed all matters currency, though I never got to mention Charlie Stross’s “slow money.” Fellow panelists were: L. E. Modesitt, Jr., Roger Bourke White, Jr., Bob Defendi, and Alicia McIntire. This was my first encounter with...
A well-paced narrative has a kind of rhythm. Instructors commonly refer to this as “push, glide, push, glide,” as if skating. What that means is that while the characters might be in the midst of chaos, there is order in the layout and pacing of the narrative. action, processing th...
A common theme in fantasy is the juxtaposition ofchaos and stability,or order. Good versus evil is atropeof the genre, and evil is usually portrayed by taking one or the other of these concepts to an extreme. AuthorL.E. Modesitt Jr.has taken thetheme of chaos and orderand built hisMagi...
The Lands of Faerie, after a struggle and a near-death experience, have a true High Prince again. The rule of the false Basilisk Prince is over, and the long process of healing the damage caused by his reign can finally happen.There are holdouts, those who do not want to submit to ...
the truth behind Shara’s death will require him to take up arms in a secret, decades-long war, face down an angry young god, and unravel the last mysteries of Bulikov, the city of miracles itself. And—perhaps most daunting of all—finally face the truth about his own cursed existenc...
of Candar.What Creslin doesn't know he stands in the way of their plot to subjugate the world.Saga of Recluce#1 The Magic of Recluce / #2 The Towers of Sunset / #3 The Order War / #4 The Magic Engineer / #5 The Death of Chaos / #6 Fall of Angels / #7 The Chaos Balance /...
I’ve read and enjoyed many books where the authors made each scene a chapter, even if it was only two or three hundred words long. They ended up with over 100 chapters in their books, but the chapter length went unnoticed by me when I read it. L.E. Modesitt Jr. sometimes has chap...
And I will just say this now –Boromir had to die because his death raises the stakes and is one of the most heart-wrenching scenes in the book. Sometimes, the story demands a death, and 99% of the time, it can’t be the protagonist.But death must mean something, wring emotion from...