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For my birthday in 1991 my wife gave me a (small) gift certificate to our local B&N and I purchased "The Magic of Recluce". I have since bought every thing that you have written. I want to thank you for the many, many hours of enjoyment , entertainment and enlightment.

I have just finished Wellspring of Chaos and I have to congratulate you. A very enjoyable story and I hope there will be a second volume of the adventures of Kharl, much like Cerryl. Lerris and Lorn. Could you get Tor to commission a new set of maps for Recluce? With the series spanning 1,800 years and the place names changing, things are a little confusing sometimes for this greybeard.

I am also very fond of Johan and Llysette and their world and I was wondering if you have any plans for a 4th volume.

Also, are there any plans for a return to the Ecolotians and the Empire ?

Thanks again for all the imagination and hard work, and for taking time to check these posts.

Longtime fan

First, there will be a second Recluce book about Kharl. That's Ordermaster, and it's scheduled to be out in hardcover in January 2005.

At this point, there are no plans for a fourth book about Johan and Llystette, although TOR is planning to reissue all three books in a single large trade paperback, probably sometime late in 2005 or in 2006 [since Of Tangible Ghosts is now out of print.

It's unlikely, but not impossible, that there will be another Ecolitan book, although I am working on another far-future SF adventure at present.

It's up to TOR on whether any more Recluce maps are commissioned, but given their expense, I'd have to say that it's most unlikely.


L. E. Modesitt, Jr.