The Chaos Balance
core novel 1998 The Saga of Recluce
Record
| First published | 1998 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.00 (5,698 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 596 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780312863890 |
Where it sits
- Universe: The Saga of Recluce
- Series: The Saga of Recluce core; position 7 of 26 in the series' recorded order
- Author: L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Notes
- From the series record (The Saga of Recluce): One continuous, internally chronological world across many reading-order sub-arcs; the whole published run to date is Core Canon, per the author's own single ordered list. Ongoing; a further volume (Last of the First) is announced for 2026 and is not yet published, so it is not registered (Constitution Article 2).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Saga of Recluce: position 7 of 26: previous Fall of Angels (1997) · next The White Order (1999)
Sources
← The Saga of Recluce dossier · All universes
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