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* ReassignmentBackfire: In ''The Ethos Effect'' the main character, a former military spaceship commander responsible for a PR disaster (everyone knows he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what he had to do]], but being responsible for the loss of a large passenger ship doesn't make you popular) ends up being the "victim" of one of these; he's given a weird assignment that doesn't match his experience, working at an embassy on a planet he's completely unfamiliar with. He ends up foiling an assassination attempt targeting diplomats from multiple interstellar nations. [[spoiler:Which angers his superiors even more, because, as the main character eventually realizes, they were ''behind the assassination attempt'' and didn't intend for him to actually succeed at his job. In fact, they didn't even intend for him to survive the journey to the planet; the unidentified spaceship that attacked him en route was actually [[FalseFlagOperation one of their own ships]].]]
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* ReassignmentBackfire: In ''The Ethos Effect'' the main character, a former military spaceship commander responsible for a PR disaster (everyone knows he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what he had to do]], but being responsible for the loss of a large passenger ship doesn't make you popular) ends up being the "victim" of one of these; he's given a weird assignment that doesn't match his experience, working at an embassy on a planet he's completely unfamiliar with. He ends up foiling an assassination attempt targeting diplomats from multiple interstellar nations. [[spoiler:Which angers his superiors even more, because, as the main character eventually realizes, they were ''behind the assassination attempt'' and didn't intend for him to actually succeed at his job. In fact, they didn't even intend for him to [[UriahGambit survive the journey to the planet; planet]]; the unidentified spaceship that attacked him en route was actually [[FalseFlagOperation one of their own ships]].]]
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* CultColony: The duology ''The Parafaith War'' and ''The Ethos Effect'' uses this along with divisions along racial lines, to the point where some characters begin confusing race with ideology. The predominantly Caucasian "Revenants of the Prophet" evolved out of a merging of Mormons and a white Muslim offshoot sect. The protagonist of ''The Parafaith War'' has to deal with strong suspicion about his motives and loyalties because he [[PhenotypeStereotype looks a lot like a generic Rev]] in a society whose population was mostly derived from south/east Asia.
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* CultColony: The duology ''The Parafaith War'' and ''The Ethos Effect'' uses this along with divisions along racial lines, to the point where some characters begin confusing race with ideology. The predominantly Caucasian "Revenants of the Prophet" evolved out of a merging of Mormons and a white Muslim offshoot sect. The protagonist of ''The Parafaith War'' has to deal with strong suspicion about his motives and loyalties because he [[PhenotypeStereotype looks a lot like a generic Rev]] in a society whose population was mostly derived from south/east Southeast Asia.
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* HumansAreWhite: Inverted in ''The Parafaith War''. The hero is blond and white-skinned... and therefore regarded with a lot of suspicion by everyone as straight "anglos" are rare in the Eco-Tech Coalition. They are more often associated with their adversaries, the fanatical Revenants of the Prophets. Most Eco-Tech citizens are Asian (predominantly south-east asian with a strong component of Japanese.) Because of that he is ultimately sent into enemy territory as a spy.
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* HumansAreWhite: Inverted in ''The Parafaith War''. The hero is blond and white-skinned... and therefore regarded with a lot of suspicion by everyone as straight "anglos" are rare in the Eco-Tech Coalition. They are more often associated with their adversaries, the fanatical Revenants of the Prophets. Most Eco-Tech citizens are Asian (predominantly south-east asian Southeast Asian with a strong component of Japanese.) Because of that he is ultimately sent into enemy territory as a spy.
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* ''The Spellsong Cycle'' -- A series spanning five books and two protagonists about a cantasy world where music can create magical effects.
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* ''Literature/Imager Portfolio'' -- A fantasy series currently containing 8 books with two sub-series. A late medieval to Renaissance world in which 'Imagers' can create (or "uncreate") whatever they can imagine, within rather strict limits.
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* ''Literature/Imager ''Imager Portfolio'' -- A fantasy series currently containing 8 books with two sub-series. A late medieval to Renaissance world in which 'Imagers' can create (or "uncreate") whatever they can imagine, within rather strict limits.
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* ''The Saga of Recluce'' -- A fantasy series containing 16 books spanning 1900 years. Various protagonists take part in the central thematic conflict between Order and Chaos.
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* ''The Ecolitan Institute'' -- A sci-fi series of four books where a small society focused on eco technology fights a larger society with more tradition sci-fi technology.
* ''Imager Portfolio'' -- A fantasy series currently containing 8 books with two sub-series. A late medieval to Renaissance world in which 'Imagers' can create (or "uncreate") whatever they can imagine, within rather strict limits.
* ''The Ecolitan Institute'' -- A sci-fi series of four books where a small society focused on eco technology fights a larger society with more tradition sci-fi technology.
* ''Imager Portfolio'' -- A fantasy series currently containing 8 books with two sub-series. A late medieval to Renaissance world in which 'Imagers' can create (or "uncreate") whatever they can imagine, within rather strict limits.
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* ''The Spellsong Cycle'' -- A series spanning five books and two protagonists about a Fantasy cantasy world where music an can create magical effects.
* ''The Ecolitan Institute'' -- A sci-fi series of four books where a small society focused oneco technology eco-technology fights a larger society with more tradition sci-fi technology.
*''Imager ''Literature/Imager Portfolio'' -- A fantasy series currently containing 8 books with two sub-series. A late medieval to Renaissance world in which 'Imagers' can create (or "uncreate") whatever they can imagine, within rather strict limits.
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* InHarmonyWithNature: Central to the Corean series.
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* InHarmonyWithNature: AlternateHistory: In the ''Ghosts'' series, history is different due to the presence of actual, scientifically-verifiable ghosts that appear after a violent death in which the person knows he or she is dying.
* BadMoonRising: The world of the Spellsong Cycle has two moons, Clearsong (normal) and Darksong (small, red, a portent of trouble when it is unusually bright).
* BenevolentPrecursors: In the ''Forever Hero'' series, the last survivors of civilization sealed away their nuclear and biological weapons as the Earth was dying, with a warning to not try to open the vault.
* TheCaptain: Gerswin, protagonist of ''The Forever Hero'', is widely known as 'the captain', and serves as a captain for a large portion of the first novel; He is later promoted, and eventually leaves service, but he is still referred to as 'the captain'.
* CultColony: The duology ''The Parafaith War'' and ''The Ethos Effect'' uses this along with divisions along racial lines, to the point where some characters begin confusing race with ideology. The predominantly Caucasian "Revenants of the Prophet" evolved out of a merging of Mormons and a white Muslim offshoot sect. The protagonist of ''The Parafaith War'' has to deal with strong suspicion about his motives and loyalties because he [[PhenotypeStereotype looks a lot like a generic Rev]] in a society whose population was mostly derived from south/east Asia.
* DeepCoverAgent: Protagonist Trystin Desoll of ''The Parafaith War'', though his infiltration didn't actually last that long. Because he looks a lot like the vaguely-Aryan "revs," he gets put through heavy training to learn how to infiltrate their home planet. His training would have allowed him to stay indefinitely, but he carried out his assassination mission in about a week.
* DefaceOfTheMoon: When the Cyb come calling in ''Adiamante'', their first act is to demonstrate the destructive potential of their warships by using a particle beam to mirror-polish a large region of the moon.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: In the alternate history of the ''Ghosts'' series, North America is split into Columbia (a United States analogue where the Dutch are one of the prominent people), the Mormon Theocracy of Deseret, New France, and Quebec.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In the first chapters of the first book of the Spellsong cycle, a spell is cast that teleports the main character in from Earth. It's implied that although the lady casting this spell isn't a very strong sorceress, she can still send people to locations halfway across the continent with a bit of help. This use of magic is never mentioned again, despite the fact that it would be tremendously useful in a variety of circumstances.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: In ''The Parafaith War'', the main character eats a lot of algae crackers and drinks a lot of Sustain (like a cross between an energy drink and a protein shake), and a breakfast with real eggs, real juice, and real bread for toast costs him about a month's salary. But that's just because he's posted on a planet undergoing {{terraform}}ing, so it can't support its own food production yet, and shipping foodstuffs between solar systems is incredibly expensive. When he visits home, on the capitol world of his society, he has plenty of real food available.
* GaiasLament: ''The Forever Hero'' features this heavily. Earth is practically uninhabitable due to massive ecological disaster, and the few survivors are quickly dying off. The main character is one of the (very) surviving outside a city, and he ends up spending his life and career trying to restore the planet.
* HumanResources: In the Corean Chronicles, the Alectors' {{Magitek}} is powered by draining lifeforce from lesser beings; everything from their life-extension, to weaponry, to transportation, to buildings are created and powered wtih lifeforce. Alectors cultivate and destroy entire worlds, planetforming them with indigenous and introduced life forms, up to and including "inferior" humans (who they refer to as "cattle"), solely for their life energy.
* HumansAreWhite: Inverted in ''The Parafaith War''. The hero is blond and white-skinned... and therefore regarded with a lot of suspicion by everyone as straight "anglos" are rare in the Eco-Tech Coalition. They are more often associated with their adversaries, the fanatical Revenants of the Prophets. Most Eco-Tech citizens are Asian (predominantly south-east asian with a strong component of Japanese.) Because of that he is ultimately sent into enemy territory as a spy.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: In ''Gravity Dreams'', hyperspace not only requires a TrainingFromHell to be able to navigate through, it also has [[spoiler:a god who wants some reassurance that he is a god.]]
* InHarmonyWithNature:
** Central to the Coreanseries.series.
** In the stand-alone science fiction novel ''Adiamante'', the future people of Earth are In Harmony With Nature because they ''have'' to be: the environmental damage of the past has so damaged the planet that even the most "minor" disruptions would have big consequences.
* LaserBlade: In the 1982 novel ''The Fires of Paratime'', one character possesses an actual light saber; it's apparently the genuine article, having been acquired [[Franchise/StarWars "from some obscure group of galactic-wide do-gooders"]] during a trip to the distant past.
* MagicMusic: In the world of ''The Spellsong Cycle'', if you sing it, it happens, but the energy to make it happen comes from your body. Being accompanied by instruments or other spellsingers helps you do more impressive things without passing out due to exhaustion or starving to death. Most people in that book's universe never learn how to sing, because most wizards don't like having potential rivals around.
* MatterReplicator: ''The Fires of Paratime'' had time/space-traveling humans stealing matter duplicators from aliens called Murians. The duplicators were small, about the size of a suitcase (which was the limit that a human could carry back home, and the humans were users, not scientists or engineers), but anything put inside the doughnut-hole center of the device could be copied. Unless it was an electrical device and you left the power on, at which point the duplicator would explode with the force of several kilotons of TNT.
* BadMoonRising: The world of the Spellsong Cycle has two moons, Clearsong (normal) and Darksong (small, red, a portent of trouble when it is unusually bright).
* BenevolentPrecursors: In the ''Forever Hero'' series, the last survivors of civilization sealed away their nuclear and biological weapons as the Earth was dying, with a warning to not try to open the vault.
* TheCaptain: Gerswin, protagonist of ''The Forever Hero'', is widely known as 'the captain', and serves as a captain for a large portion of the first novel; He is later promoted, and eventually leaves service, but he is still referred to as 'the captain'.
* CultColony: The duology ''The Parafaith War'' and ''The Ethos Effect'' uses this along with divisions along racial lines, to the point where some characters begin confusing race with ideology. The predominantly Caucasian "Revenants of the Prophet" evolved out of a merging of Mormons and a white Muslim offshoot sect. The protagonist of ''The Parafaith War'' has to deal with strong suspicion about his motives and loyalties because he [[PhenotypeStereotype looks a lot like a generic Rev]] in a society whose population was mostly derived from south/east Asia.
* DeepCoverAgent: Protagonist Trystin Desoll of ''The Parafaith War'', though his infiltration didn't actually last that long. Because he looks a lot like the vaguely-Aryan "revs," he gets put through heavy training to learn how to infiltrate their home planet. His training would have allowed him to stay indefinitely, but he carried out his assassination mission in about a week.
* DefaceOfTheMoon: When the Cyb come calling in ''Adiamante'', their first act is to demonstrate the destructive potential of their warships by using a particle beam to mirror-polish a large region of the moon.
* DividedStatesOfAmerica: In the alternate history of the ''Ghosts'' series, North America is split into Columbia (a United States analogue where the Dutch are one of the prominent people), the Mormon Theocracy of Deseret, New France, and Quebec.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: In the first chapters of the first book of the Spellsong cycle, a spell is cast that teleports the main character in from Earth. It's implied that although the lady casting this spell isn't a very strong sorceress, she can still send people to locations halfway across the continent with a bit of help. This use of magic is never mentioned again, despite the fact that it would be tremendously useful in a variety of circumstances.
* FutureFoodIsArtificial: In ''The Parafaith War'', the main character eats a lot of algae crackers and drinks a lot of Sustain (like a cross between an energy drink and a protein shake), and a breakfast with real eggs, real juice, and real bread for toast costs him about a month's salary. But that's just because he's posted on a planet undergoing {{terraform}}ing, so it can't support its own food production yet, and shipping foodstuffs between solar systems is incredibly expensive. When he visits home, on the capitol world of his society, he has plenty of real food available.
* GaiasLament: ''The Forever Hero'' features this heavily. Earth is practically uninhabitable due to massive ecological disaster, and the few survivors are quickly dying off. The main character is one of the (very) surviving outside a city, and he ends up spending his life and career trying to restore the planet.
* HumanResources: In the Corean Chronicles, the Alectors' {{Magitek}} is powered by draining lifeforce from lesser beings; everything from their life-extension, to weaponry, to transportation, to buildings are created and powered wtih lifeforce. Alectors cultivate and destroy entire worlds, planetforming them with indigenous and introduced life forms, up to and including "inferior" humans (who they refer to as "cattle"), solely for their life energy.
* HumansAreWhite: Inverted in ''The Parafaith War''. The hero is blond and white-skinned... and therefore regarded with a lot of suspicion by everyone as straight "anglos" are rare in the Eco-Tech Coalition. They are more often associated with their adversaries, the fanatical Revenants of the Prophets. Most Eco-Tech citizens are Asian (predominantly south-east asian with a strong component of Japanese.) Because of that he is ultimately sent into enemy territory as a spy.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: In ''Gravity Dreams'', hyperspace not only requires a TrainingFromHell to be able to navigate through, it also has [[spoiler:a god who wants some reassurance that he is a god.]]
* InHarmonyWithNature:
** Central to the Corean
** In the stand-alone science fiction novel ''Adiamante'', the future people of Earth are In Harmony With Nature because they ''have'' to be: the environmental damage of the past has so damaged the planet that even the most "minor" disruptions would have big consequences.
* LaserBlade: In the 1982 novel ''The Fires of Paratime'', one character possesses an actual light saber; it's apparently the genuine article, having been acquired [[Franchise/StarWars "from some obscure group of galactic-wide do-gooders"]] during a trip to the distant past.
* MagicMusic: In the world of ''The Spellsong Cycle'', if you sing it, it happens, but the energy to make it happen comes from your body. Being accompanied by instruments or other spellsingers helps you do more impressive things without passing out due to exhaustion or starving to death. Most people in that book's universe never learn how to sing, because most wizards don't like having potential rivals around.
* MatterReplicator: ''The Fires of Paratime'' had time/space-traveling humans stealing matter duplicators from aliens called Murians. The duplicators were small, about the size of a suitcase (which was the limit that a human could carry back home, and the humans were users, not scientists or engineers), but anything put inside the doughnut-hole center of the device could be copied. Unless it was an electrical device and you left the power on, at which point the duplicator would explode with the force of several kilotons of TNT.
* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: In the ''Corean Chronicles'', there is a fabric known as nightsilk. High quality nightsilk is not only warm and comfortable, when it is worn in a tightly fitting outfit, it can absorb impact damage. The reason that most people in the story give for the main character of the first trilogy surviving all the stuff he gets put through is because he's wearing bulletproof underwear. (In truth, he needs to reinforce it with his psychic powers to survive the more extreme incidents, but casual observers know about his nightsilk body stocking and don't know about his powers.) This material is not widely used as military armor due to a limited supply and the high manufacturing costs (the hero of the first trilogy can acquire nightsilk clothing mainly because his family makes it).
* NoSelfBuffs: In the ''Spellsong Cycle'', magicians cannot cast magic on themselves. They can, however, cast magic on ''each other''.
* OnlyOneMeAllowedRightNow: The ''Timegod'' series has this as an explicit rule: a timediver cannot superimpose himself or herself in space and time. So if one screws something up, he can't just go back a few minutes and try again.
* ThePowerOfRock: In the ''Spellsong Cycle'', a classically trained opera soprano is transported to a world in which music is magic. And nobody there has any training. And combined with some fancy lute playing, is powerful enough to [[spoiler:create a city-sized nuclear fusion explosion from thin air.]]
* ReassignmentBackfire: In ''The Ethos Effect'' the main character, a former military spaceship commander responsible for a PR disaster (everyone knows he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what he had to do]], but being responsible for the loss of a large passenger ship doesn't make you popular) ends up being the "victim" of one of these; he's given a weird assignment that doesn't match his experience, working at an embassy on a planet he's completely unfamiliar with. He ends up foiling an assassination attempt targeting diplomats from multiple interstellar nations. [[spoiler:Which angers his superiors even more, because, as the main character eventually realizes, they were ''behind the assassination attempt'' and didn't intend for him to actually succeed at his job. In fact, they didn't even intend for him to survive the journey to the planet; the unidentified spaceship that attacked him en route was actually [[FalseFlagOperation one of their own ships]].]]
* NoSelfBuffs: In the ''Spellsong Cycle'', magicians cannot cast magic on themselves. They can, however, cast magic on ''each other''.
* OnlyOneMeAllowedRightNow: The ''Timegod'' series has this as an explicit rule: a timediver cannot superimpose himself or herself in space and time. So if one screws something up, he can't just go back a few minutes and try again.
* ThePowerOfRock: In the ''Spellsong Cycle'', a classically trained opera soprano is transported to a world in which music is magic. And nobody there has any training. And combined with some fancy lute playing, is powerful enough to [[spoiler:create a city-sized nuclear fusion explosion from thin air.]]
* ReassignmentBackfire: In ''The Ethos Effect'' the main character, a former military spaceship commander responsible for a PR disaster (everyone knows he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what he had to do]], but being responsible for the loss of a large passenger ship doesn't make you popular) ends up being the "victim" of one of these; he's given a weird assignment that doesn't match his experience, working at an embassy on a planet he's completely unfamiliar with. He ends up foiling an assassination attempt targeting diplomats from multiple interstellar nations. [[spoiler:Which angers his superiors even more, because, as the main character eventually realizes, they were ''behind the assassination attempt'' and didn't intend for him to actually succeed at his job. In fact, they didn't even intend for him to survive the journey to the planet; the unidentified spaceship that attacked him en route was actually [[FalseFlagOperation one of their own ships]].]]
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* SummonEverymanHero –- Central to the Spellsong cycle.
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* SummonEverymanHero –- Central to SummonEverymanHero: In the Spellsong cycle.
cycle, magic is done by a combination of song and music. The fact that music has magical effects leads to the paradoxical situation where musical ''theory'' is stunted, since the musical experimentation required to advance theory is dangerous. The summoned heroine is a professor of music whose trained singing voice, advanced knowledge of musical theory and Every(wo)man knowledge of science allows her to do things with magic that no one who born in the world could possibly match.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In the ''Spellsong Cycle'', the main character is summoned from Earth because of her skills as a singer.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: In ''The Spellsong Cycle'', the main character, who's canonically NeutralGood, accumulates a five-digit body count by the end of the first book, because she's determined to fix the CrapsackWorld she's [[TrappedInAnotherWorld trapped in]]. Interestingly, she isn't aiming for utopia proper--she's trying to recreate the American democratic system, which is utopian compared to the society she's dealing with.
* WhatTheHellHero: At the end of ''The Ethos Effect'', the hero is forced to decide whether it is permissible to kill many people now so that more can live peacefully in the future. He decides that it is, and decides to commit genocide on the new would-be EvilEmpire, ''before'' it can become a threat to the rest of the galaxy. Some extremely pacifistic SufficientlyAdvancedAliens call him out on this, accusing him of misusing [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum their technology]]. [[ScrewYouElves He argues with them]], saying that no, he's not a deity, just a tool-using creature who used the biggest hammer he could find because nothing else could possibly do the job, complaining that they're [[StupidGood too afraid of corrupting themselves]] to take sides when humans fight each other.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: In the ''Spellsong Cycle'', the main character is summoned from Earth because of her skills as a singer.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: In ''The Spellsong Cycle'', the main character, who's canonically NeutralGood, accumulates a five-digit body count by the end of the first book, because she's determined to fix the CrapsackWorld she's [[TrappedInAnotherWorld trapped in]]. Interestingly, she isn't aiming for utopia proper--she's trying to recreate the American democratic system, which is utopian compared to the society she's dealing with.
* WhatTheHellHero: At the end of ''The Ethos Effect'', the hero is forced to decide whether it is permissible to kill many people now so that more can live peacefully in the future. He decides that it is, and decides to commit genocide on the new would-be EvilEmpire, ''before'' it can become a threat to the rest of the galaxy. Some extremely pacifistic SufficientlyAdvancedAliens call him out on this, accusing him of misusing [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum their technology]]. [[ScrewYouElves He argues with them]], saying that no, he's not a deity, just a tool-using creature who used the biggest hammer he could find because nothing else could possibly do the job, complaining that they're [[StupidGood too afraid of corrupting themselves]] to take sides when humans fight each other.
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* MedievalStasis: In the Corean Chronicles, in which massive spans of time occur, although it's more like Renaissance Stasis.
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* MedievalStasis: In the Corean Chronicles, in which massive spans of time occur, although it's more like Renaissance Stasis.
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!!Works by Modessit with their own pages:
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!!Other works by Modessit contain examples of:
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!!Other works by Modessit Modesitt contain examples of:
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!!Some tropes common to Modessit’s works are:
* InHarmonyWithNature-- Central to the Corean series, and touched on other places as well.
* MagicAIsMagicA -- His series with magic all follow fairly rigorous rules for that magic.
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic -- Played with: protagonists sometimes have to keep reinventing the wheel but do so in an analytic way (Corean Chronicles), or are part of a world that has some low level analysis of magic tradition which they upgrade to the realm of actual science (Spellsong Cycle)
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans –Antagonists tend to fall into this, leading to…
* GenocideDilemma -- Shows up over and over again, with Heroes trying to avoid the Dilemma only to find themselves forced into a more radical act later on.
* MedievalStasis -- To varying degrees in varying series, especiall the ones where massive spans of time occur (Corean Chronicles, although in that case it’s more like Renaissance Stasis).
* InHarmonyWithNature-- Central to the Corean series, and touched on other places as well.
* MagicAIsMagicA -- His series with magic all follow fairly rigorous rules for that magic.
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic -- Played with: protagonists sometimes have to keep reinventing the wheel but do so in an analytic way (Corean Chronicles), or are part of a world that has some low level analysis of magic tradition which they upgrade to the realm of actual science (Spellsong Cycle)
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans –Antagonists tend to fall into this, leading to…
* GenocideDilemma -- Shows up over and over again, with Heroes trying to avoid the Dilemma only to find themselves forced into a more radical act later on.
* MedievalStasis -- To varying degrees in varying series, especiall the ones where massive spans of time occur (Corean Chronicles, although in that case it’s more like Renaissance Stasis).
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* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic -- Played with:
** In the Corean Chronicles, protagonists sometimes have to keep reinventing the wheel but do so in an analytic
** Played with in the Spellsong Cycle, the protagonists are part of a world that has some low level analysis of magic tradition which they upgrade to the realm of actual
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* GenocideDilemma -- Shows up over and over again, with Heroes trying to avoid
* MedievalStasis -- To varying degrees
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* InHarmonyWithNature-- Central to both the Recluce series and the Corean series, and touched on other places as well.
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* InHarmonyWithNature-- Central to both the Recluce series and the Corean series, and touched on other places as well.
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* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic -- Played with: protagonists sometimes exist within an already established magical scholarship tradition (Recluce), have to keep reinventing the wheel but do so in an analytic way (Corean Chronicles), or are part of a world that has some low level analysis of magic tradition which they upgrade to the realm of actual science (Spellsong Cycle)
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* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic -- Played with: protagonists sometimes exist within an already established magical scholarship tradition (Recluce), have to keep reinventing the wheel but do so in an analytic way (Corean Chronicles), or are part of a world that has some low level analysis of magic tradition which they upgrade to the realm of actual science (Spellsong Cycle)
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* MedievalStasis -- To varying degrees in varying series, especiall the ones where massive spans of time occur (Recluce and Corean Chronicles), although in the latter case it’s more like Renaissance Stasis.
* SummonEverymanHero –Suggested in The Saga of Recluce and central to the Spellsong cycle.
* SummonEverymanHero –Suggested in The Saga of Recluce and central to the Spellsong cycle.
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* MedievalStasis -- To varying degrees in varying series, especiall the ones where massive spans of time occur (Recluce and Corean Chronicles), (Corean Chronicles, although in the latter that case it’s more like Renaissance Stasis.
Stasis).
* SummonEverymanHero–Suggested in The Saga of Recluce and central –- Central to the Spellsong cycle.
* SummonEverymanHero
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* ''Literature/TheSagaOfRecluce''\\
A fantasy series containing 16 books spanning 1900 years. Various protagonists take part in the central thematic conflict between Order and Chaos.
* ''Literature/TheCoreanChronicles''\\
A series spanning 8 books and three primary protagonists, heavy on environmentalist themes.
* ''Literature/TheSpellsongCycle''\\
A series spanning five books and two protagonists about a Fantasy world where music an create magical effects.
* ''Literature/TheEcolitanInstitute ''\\
A sci-fi series of four books where a small society focused on eco technology fights a larger society with more tradition sci-fi technology.
* ''Literature/ImagerPortfolio''\\
A fantasy series currently containing 8 books with two sub-series. A late medieval to Renaissance world in which 'Imagers' can create (or "uncreate") whatever they can imagine, within rather strict limits.
A fantasy series containing 16 books spanning 1900 years. Various protagonists take part in the central thematic conflict between Order and Chaos.
* ''Literature/TheCoreanChronicles''\\
A series spanning 8 books and three primary protagonists, heavy on environmentalist themes.
* ''Literature/TheSpellsongCycle''\\
A series spanning five books and two protagonists about a Fantasy world where music an create magical effects.
* ''Literature/TheEcolitanInstitute ''\\
A sci-fi series of four books where a small society focused on eco technology fights a larger society with more tradition sci-fi technology.
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A fantasy series currently containing 8 books with two sub-series. A late medieval to Renaissance world in which 'Imagers' can create (or "uncreate") whatever they can imagine, within rather strict limits.
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''The Saga of Recluce'' -- A fantasy series containing 16 books spanning 1900 years. Various protagonists take part in the central thematic conflict between Order and Chaos.
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''The Corean Chronicles'' -- A series spanning 8 books and three primary protagonists, heavy on environmentalist themes.
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''The Spellsong Cycle'' -- A series spanning five books and two protagonists about a Fantasy world where music an create magical effects.
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''The Ecolitan Institute'' -- A sci-fi series of four books where a small society focused on eco technology fights a larger society with more tradition sci-fi technology.
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''Imager Portfolio'' -- A fantasy series currently containing 8 books with two sub-series. A late medieval to Renaissance world in which 'Imagers' can create (or "uncreate") whatever they can imagine, within rather strict limits.
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L. E Modessit Jr. is an author of Science fiction and Fantasy novels.
Probably best known for writing series with a long series of books set in the same world separated by time and space.
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!!He has several major series including:
* ''Literature/'TheSagaofRecluce
A fantasy series containing 16 books spanning 1900 years. Various protagonists take part in the central thematic conflict between Order and Chaos.
* ''Literature/'TheCoreanChronicles
A series spanning 8 books and three primary protagonists, heavy on environmentalist themes.
* ''Literature/'TheSpellsongCycle
A series spanning five books and two protagonists about a Fantasy world where music an create magical effects.
* ''Literature/' TheEcolitanInstitute
A sci-fi series of four books where a small society focused on eco technology fights a larger society with more tradition sci-fi technology.
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!!Some tropes common to Modessit’s works are:
* InHarmonyWithNature-- Central to both the Recluce series and the Corean series, and touched on other places as well.
* MagicAIsMagicA -- His series with magic all follow fairly rigorous rules for that magic.
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic -- Played with: protagonists sometimes exist within an already established magical scholarship tradition (Recluce), have to keep reinventing the wheel but do so in an analytic way (Corean Chronicles), or are part of a world that has some low level analysis of magic tradition which they upgrade to the realm of actual science (Spellsong Cycle)
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans –Antagonists tend to fall into this, leading to…
*GenocideDilemma -- Shows up over and over again, with Heroes trying to avoid the Dilemma only to find themselves forced into a more radical act later on.
*MedievalStasis -- To varying degrees in varying series, especiall the ones where massive spans of time occur (Recluce and Corean Chronicles), although in the latter case it’s more like Renaissance Stasis.
*SummonEverymanHero –Suggested in The Saga of Recluce and central to the Spellsong cycle.
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Probably best known for writing series with a long series of books set in the same world separated by time and space.
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!!He has several major series including:
* ''Literature/'TheSagaofRecluce
A fantasy series containing 16 books spanning 1900 years. Various protagonists take part in the central thematic conflict between Order and Chaos.
* ''Literature/'TheCoreanChronicles
A series spanning 8 books and three primary protagonists, heavy on environmentalist themes.
* ''Literature/'TheSpellsongCycle
A series spanning five books and two protagonists about a Fantasy world where music an create magical effects.
* ''Literature/' TheEcolitanInstitute
A sci-fi series of four books where a small society focused on eco technology fights a larger society with more tradition sci-fi technology.
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!!Some tropes common to Modessit’s works are:
* InHarmonyWithNature-- Central to both the Recluce series and the Corean series, and touched on other places as well.
* MagicAIsMagicA -- His series with magic all follow fairly rigorous rules for that magic.
* SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic -- Played with: protagonists sometimes exist within an already established magical scholarship tradition (Recluce), have to keep reinventing the wheel but do so in an analytic way (Corean Chronicles), or are part of a world that has some low level analysis of magic tradition which they upgrade to the realm of actual science (Spellsong Cycle)
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans –Antagonists tend to fall into this, leading to…
*GenocideDilemma -- Shows up over and over again, with Heroes trying to avoid the Dilemma only to find themselves forced into a more radical act later on.
*MedievalStasis -- To varying degrees in varying series, especiall the ones where massive spans of time occur (Recluce and Corean Chronicles), although in the latter case it’s more like Renaissance Stasis.
*SummonEverymanHero –Suggested in The Saga of Recluce and central to the Spellsong cycle.
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