The Ethos Effect
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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
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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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Reviews for The Ethos Effect
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Modesitt 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.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I 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).