SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

I'm always looking for new authors. I read the summary of Modesitt's Imager series on Wikipedia and have been seeing his books around forever but gave never read any.

How good are the Imager books? This is from someone who has Hamilton, Herbert, Corey, Morgan and Reynolds as his favorite SF authors.

Good question. I keep seeing the name, funnily enough, the Recluce fantasy books though, not the sci-fi. I wouldn't mind another long series to chew on. I'd be really interested in the answer, so I'm posting so this thread gets into my notifications.

And conveniently, I have pretty high crossover in taste with the Mad Professor (72%!) so this oughta be interesting.

Imager Portfolio is mostly a fantasy series (though it does have guns) and the first novel in the series was a little slow for me. I have not read any of the others at this point.

Weird, from the Wikipedia entry I somehow thought this was more SFnal.

Fantasy-wise I'm a huge fan of Weeks (Lightbringer series) and Abraham (Dagger and Coin series. Are the Imager and Recluce series copacetic with these?)

I enjoyed the Imager series quite a bit. The setting is steam-age technology with a small segment of the populace having the ability to affect the world by visualizing and imposing their will on their environment (i.e., imaging).

Just FYI - the first three books are told from the viewpoint of one main character, and the subsequent six books are prequels told from the viewpoint of another character several hundred years prior.

I enjoyed the Imager books. But I think he is an acquired taste. I think it's the better choise of the 2 series.

The Recluce books were repetitious and clunky for me. Although I've read 3 or 4 of them. If he said "She took a sip of water" one more time I was going to scream. I get it - it's hot, sheesh.

Well that's a shame, my local library has tons of the Recluce books. I might give them a shot anyway, and if I come across the Imager books, you've at least encouraged me to give those a try, even if I don't much like the Recluce series.

love anything written by L.E. MODESITT , i just lose myself in any book he writes.

I've only read one of L.E. Modesitt's books, and it had a good pace to it with nice world building. I've wanted to get back to his stories again, but I just haven't had time to do so.

I'm not a huge fan. I've read Imager and the first Recluce novel. Can't remember what happened in them. I vaguely remember political undertones that reminded me of preachy Goodkind vibes but in the opposite spectrum. All in all, wasn't very memorable but I did finish the book so it must have been good enough as a diversion!