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
Empire & Ecolitan
Single volume containing
The
Ecologic Operation and The Ecologic
Secession
From
the trade paperback:
Major Jimjoy Ealre Wright, secret agent of the Empire, is intelligent and
highly trained. But he succeeds all to well in overthrowing a military
dictatorship - and the result is a new government inimical to the Empire
and disgrace for Jimjoy. After surviving two assassination attempts, Jimjoy
realizes that it's his own imperial superiors who want him dead; that, in
fact, his worst enemies could become his best friends. He fights his way
to safety on the planet Accord, where the Ecolitan Institute wins his
loyalty and changes his identity. Now he is James Joyson Whaler, Ecolitan,
in the middle of a war of independence against the inconceivably superior
forces of the Empire.
From the ARC:
Two linked SF novels of interstellar conflict in one volume for the
first time
This is an omnibus of two early novels in L.E. Modesitt's Ecolitan Matter series, The Ecologic Operation and The Ecologic Secession. The series deals with the conflict between the old and corrupt interstellar Empire, and the Ecolitan Institute of the planet Accord. The Institute, ostensibly a training academy in ecology, is in reality a progressive force reminiscent of Isaac Asimov's Foundation. Both novels were initially published as mass market originals and are now out of print. The two books form a complete story arc.
Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, is intelligent and highly trained. He succeeds too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship - and the result is a new government inimical to the Empire which employs him. So Jimjoy is disgraced and his superiors want him dead. After surviving two assassination attempts, Jimjoy begins to realize that his troubles are serious - that, in fact, his worst enemies could be his friends.
He decides to change sides and fights his way to safety on the planet of Accord. Once there the Ecolitan Institute wins his loyalty and changes his identity. Now he is James Joyson Whaler, Ecolitan, in the middle of a war of independence against the inconceivable superior forces of the Empire.
L. E. Modesitt's science fiction is marked by a clear understanding of politics, and a painful awareness of the consequences of moral choices.
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Note
Why books Two and Three?
"The reason why Empire & Ecolitan contains books 2&3 is because books 2&3 are both about Jimjoy Wright and go together. Books 1&4 are about Nathaniel Whaler, and there will be a combined volume of those two at some point in the future."