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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Dawn for a Distant Earth

DEVILKID

The Empire spanned the galaxy, leaving abandoned the ruins of Old Earth -- a frigid devastation of gray deserts and poison, ice storms and landspouts; a wasteland home only to coyotes and rats, degenerate shambletowners and feral devilkids. Sometimes a fad would sweep the Empire — reclaim the homeworld. But environmental salvation took too long, cost too much, and the fads were always forgotten...

Except by MacGregor Gerswin.

A Captured devilkid trained for space combat, he was too savage, too brilliant, too independent for the military, who exiled him to his home. But there Gerswin found a challenge that would consume all his strength and rage, through the decades and centuries of his life. He conspired to wage a one man war against the indifference, the incompetence, the vanity of an empire. He would use patience, politics, manipulation — even sabotage, scandal and ambush.

But — somehow — Gerswin would find a way to bring Earth back from the dead.

The first volume of The Forever Hero, an interstellar epic!