Science Fiction
- The Forever Hero
- The Forever Hero
- Dawn For a Distant Earth
- In Endless Twilight
- The Silent Warrior
- The Ecolitan Institute
- The Ecologic Envoy
- The Ecolitan Operation
- The Ecologic Secession
- The Ecoloitan Enigma
- Empire & Ecolitan
- Ecolitan Prime
- Timegod's World
- The Fires of Paratime
- The Timegod
- Timediver's Dawn
- Timegods' World
- Ghosts of Columbia
- Of Tangible Ghosts
- The Ghost of the Revelator
- Ghost of the White Nights
- Ghosts of Columbia
- "Always Outside the Lines: Four Battles"
- Non-series
- The Octagonal Raven
- The Hammer of Darkness (Avon)
- The Hammer of Darkness (TOR)
- The Hammer of Darkness (TOR trade)
- The Green Progression
- The Parafaith War
- Gravity Dreams
- Adiamante
- Archform: Beauty
- The Ethos Effect
- Flash
- The Eternity Artifact
- The Elysium Commission
- Haze
- Empress of Eternity
- The One-Eyed Man
- Home
The Ethos Effect
Set in the same universe as The Parafaith War (but two centuries later, and intended to be read independently), The Ethos Effect is the story of Commander Van C. Albert of the Republic Space Forces of Taran, a brave and resourceful officer who once defeated a larger enemy ship but indirectly caused the lass of a civilian liner in the process. Cleared by the board of inquiry, but an embarrassment to the high command, he retains his commission but is given only dead-end assignments. For a time, he must watch helplessly as cold war among economic, religious, and political rivals evolves toward interstellar open warfare.
Assigned as a military attaché to the Taran embassy on Scandya, Van is seriously wounded foiling an assassination. Decorated, promoted, and summarily retired while still in a coma, he wakes to find himself honorably but intolerably unemployed. When the harmless-sounding Integrated Information Systems foundation of the Eco-Tech Coalition recruits him to fly a starship, Van finds he now has a powerful new vantage point, not just for observation but for action. IIS has interests everywhere, and Van is not just a pilot but their point man in a conflict that will shake the worlds.
Modesitt uses a distinctive blend of space battles, political and economic intrigue, and issues of race and religion to address deep questions of good and evil, ethics and self-interest. Van Albert makes his decisions; it is for you to decide whether hi is a nero.