The main character, Rhen, exists in this book only to lecture and be lectured about government, and to eat very detailed meals. The “characters” aren’t even caricatures-that would require Modesitt to give them some sort of personality. He creates boring, detailed fantasy worlds and peoples them with walking shadows. Modesitt's writing is like clockwork: predictable, dependable, unexciting. His first short story, "The Great American Economy", was published in 1973 in Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact. Modesitt has published technical studies and articles, columns, poetry, and a number of science fiction stories. He has worked as a Navy pilot, lifeguard, delivery boy, unpaid radio disc jockey, real estate agent, market research analyst, director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant for a Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer and writer in residence. They relocated to Cedar City, Utah in 1993. for 20 years, then moved to New Hampshire in 1989 where he met his wife. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, lived in Washington, D.C. He is best known for the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce. is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. Imager is the innovative and enchanting opening of an involving new fantasy story. He makes a powerful enemy while righting a wrong, and begins to learn to do magic in secret.
Every day brings a new threat to his life.
In this new life, Rhenn discovers that all too many of the “truths” he knew were nothing of the sort. Imagers live separately from the rest of society because of their abilities (they can do accidental magic even while asleep), and because they are both feared and vulnerable. He must leave his family and join the Collegium of Imagisle. Then, in a single moment, his entire life is transformed when his master patron is killed in a flash fire, and Rhenn discovers he is an imager-one of the few in the entire world of Terahnar who can visualize things and make them real. Although Rhennthyl is the son of a leading wool merchant in L’Excelsis, the capital of Solidar, the most powerful nation on Terahnar, he has spent years becoming a journeyman artist and is skilled and diligent enough to be considered for the status of master artisan-in another two years. Imager is the beginning of a whole new fantasy in a whole new magical world from the bestselling creator of Recluce.
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