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    The Ethos Effect

    By L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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    A military science fiction adventure from, L. E. Modesitt, author of the bestselling Saga of Recluce series, set in the universe of The Parafaith War. The Ethos Effect combines hard science fiction adventure with an insightful examination of the relationship between the sacred and the secular.

    Set two centuries later, after the events of The Parafaith War, Commander Van C. Albert, the resourceful officer who once defeated a larger enemy ship, indirectly caused the loss of a civilian liner. Cleared by the board of inquiry, but an embarrassment to the high command, he finds himself in dead-end assignments.

    Seriously wounded foiling an assassination, Van awakes from a coma to find that he's been decorated, promoted and summarily retired. Looking for new employment, Van will find that a simple piloting job turns him into a point man in a conflict that will shake the worlds.

    Other Series by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
    The Saga of Recluce
    The Imager Portfolio
    The Corean Chronicles
    The Spellsong Cycle
    The Ghost Books
    The Ecolitan Matter
    The Forever Hero
    Timegod's World

    Other Books
    The Green Progression
    Hammer of Darkness
    The Parafaith War
    Adiamante
    Gravity Dreams
    The Octagonal Raven
    Archform: Beauty
    The Ethos Effect
    Flash
    The Eternity Artifact
    The Elysium Commission
    Viewpoints Critical
    Haze
    Empress of Eternity
    The One-Eyed Man
    Solar Express

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateAug 24, 2010
    ISBN9781429913911
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    L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

    L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.

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    • 5/5
      Modesitt while writing a fast paced and gripping novel does one more thing. He engages the reader in questions of ethics and morality. The center of which is when is it correct to act for the benefit of the larger society over the parts of society. A thoughtful book and fun. If there are any typos I am suffering from fat finger syndrome today.
    • 4/5
      I found this book to be hollow. Modesitt is trying to make big statements about a grand theme (ethics, in case the title didn't make it plain), but isn't a big enough writer to pull it off. Nice enough story, but too many words, and - while ethics is a tough nut to crack - a sledgehammer isn't the right approach. Plucky officer in the space navy rescues his ship from certain doom (having previously been through a perilous encounter), and then just happens to avert another cataclysmic event for which he doesn't get the reward he might expect. Thereafter he lands a plum job, and gets to whizz about the galaxy righting wrongs. Of course, all the events he's tied up in are part of bigger machinations, and so his involvement in galactic affairs becomes pivotal. Lots of planet-hopping and a cast of characters that are limited enough that you can keep track of who's who are interwoven with some spiffing technology that seems to have changed society remarkably little for all that it offers. Pretty standard space opera fare, but it's just the setting for the exploration of this ethics theme. Hmmm, where have I seen a thick book where galaxy-spanning action has a number of interjections from an important historical figure spouting off some platitudes about a key theme? Ah yes, it was Dune. Well, this book is to Dune as Lake Windermere is to the Atlantic Ocean. Ethics is a big, meaty subject, and if you are going to spend a few chapters trying to make some philosophical points about ethics, then you'd better be a damn fine writer and treat it with some circumspection. Modesitt fails on the first count (or perhaps it's the editing that lets him down, and allows him to waffle on when a few cuts here and there would make things tauter) and on the second he goes in with all guns blazing. (I had the same criticism about the writing in Archform: Beauty, where I put the problem down to editing as well.) So, it's a good story, let down by slack writing (or editing) and by the fact that the writer just isn't up to the theme that is being explored. I wouldn't recommend it, but then I wouldn't counsel against it if someone wants a book about a hero who zips around space playing politics with a fancy spaceship (and having a few nightmares as he struggles with all the bad things that have happened to him - ahhh, poor boy).