Of Tangible Ghosts

Wow. Modesitt is one hell of an author. This book is really impressive on several fronts and the only reason i don't give it a 5 star rating is that it does tend to confuse the reader fairly often. However, this is actually kind of a good thing. I really appreciate an author who isn't playing to the......more

I think this would be classified as 'steampunk'. There's a slight difference in how electricity works, so ghosts are a fact of life. The U.S. isn't a country, instead there are several smaller countries across the NA continent. No gas cars, but steamers & there are 'difference engines' instead of co......more

Entertaining first-person action-adventure interspersed with a lot of college politics and teaching stuff (which will definitely be better appreciated if one had to deal with that), set in the 1990s of an alternate universe where ghosts exist, the geopolitical situation is quite different as is tech......more

The, three so far,"Ghost" books by L. E. Modesitt Jr. were an early introduction to the "Steam" genre. They present a well thought out alternate world, one in which the population must deal with and live with the repercussions of deaths by violence and war. Ghosts are real and persistent, reliving t......more

I really enjoyed this book. It starts as an alternative history morphing into a murder mystery with political intrigue thrown in. The story has enough twists to keep it interesting, but not so many so as to be difficult to follow. The ending also throws a bit of a twist to the tale. This is a lite rea......more