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I'm an avid reader of L. E. Modesitt Jr's oeuvre. I'm usually on at least one of his novels in parallel with whatever else I'm reading at that moment. For a few years now, I've been immersed in his “Saga of Recluce” series, an informal name given by the readers, if I remember correctly. I'm currently at the fifth novel, in publication order, which is also the last one in the internal chronological order. After that, I'll continue with the sixth published novel, one of the oldest stories in the internal chronology, and one that narrates essential events. Following that one, I plan on interrupting the publication order to then read another few novels that I'm more interested in, due to the fundamental importance of those stories in the global arc, and therefore in the worldbuilding. Some of them narrate the oldest events in that world, thus far.

To anyone who may be interested in the series, my recommendation is to not search for worldbuilding and plot details online. I think it's best to get into it without knowing, or knowing as little as possible. Concomitantly, I agree with the author on his recommendation to read everything in publication order.

More recently, I started one of his science fiction novels, which is what has most of my attention at the moment, in fiction reading. It's Gravity Dreams (1999).