L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
L. E.Modesitt Jr.is a science fiction and fantasy author who has written over 55 novels. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce. By 2015 the 18 novels in the Recluce series had sold nearly three million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth19 October 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.