The Worlds of L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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

 
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The Forever Hero

This is L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s first major work: a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together the form The Forever Hero Trilogy.

Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only be a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and educated, and disappears -- to grow up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build and independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.