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L.E. Modesitt Jr.
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The other day I received an email from a faithful reader who noted that he had stopped reading The Soprano Sorceress because the song magic was "too easy." Over the years I've received other comments along the lines that all she had to do was open her mouth and sing.
Right. Except that under the magic system in Erde, the song had to be perfectly on pitch and in key; the words had to specify wh...
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The Magic of Recluce (The Saga of Recluce, #1)
— published 1991 — 21 editions |
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The Magic Engineer (The Saga of Recluce, #3)
— published 1994 — 9 editions |
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The Death of Chaos (The Saga of Recluce, #5)
— published 1995 — 11 editions |
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The Order War (The Saga of Recluce, #4)
— published 1995 — 7 editions |
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The Towers of the Sunset (The Saga of Recluce, #2)
— published 1992 — 18 editions |
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Fall of Angels (The Saga of Recluce, #6)
— published 1996 — 7 editions |
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Imager (Imager Portfolio, #1)
— published 2009 — 11 editions |
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Colors of Chaos (The Saga of Recluce, #9)
— published 1998 — 9 editions |
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The Chaos Balance (The Saga of Recluce, #7)
— published 1997 — 8 editions |
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The White Order (The Saga of Recluce, #8)
— published 1998 — 10 editions |
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“Love of another is merely empty flattery and self-deception for one who cannot accept himself without pretense.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr.
― L.E. Modesitt Jr.
“Without power, knowledge is useless. without knowledge, faith is tyranny. Without understanding, humanity is blind, and without all four, it is doomed.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., The Parafaith War
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., The Parafaith War
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Which series should become our first ever Beyond Reality Series?
The Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
The Honorverse (Honor Harrington series) by David Weber
The Morgaine Saga by C.J. Cherryh
The Elric series by Michael Moorcock
The Malazan Books of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
The Saga of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr.
The Sun Sword series by Michelle Sagara West
The Troy trilogy by David Gemmell
The Deverry series by Katharine Kerr
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