That was one of the problems I had with all of the Recluce series - I decided I was going to buy them about a year ago, but I could find nowhere that sold the early ones. Distraught, I was.
I eventually got extremely lucky and found 11 going in a single auction on eBay - a couple of hours later and I'd have missed them!
A quarter of the way through
The Death of Chaos, now. At this point is Modesitt going through some sort of change with his writing styles? The first book was first person in a past tense, two and three were third person in the present tense, and then the fourth (which took some real getting used to) was third person in the past tense. It makes sense for him to go back to first person past tense with a return to Lerris, but it does ones head in when you go straight from one back to another to be met with a different style.
