Modesitt returns to science fiction with Of Tangible Ghosts, a carefully crafted alternate universe novel. In this world, the Dutch never lost control of the Northeast, and France, Spain, and Chung Kuo are today's superpowers, as is Colombia. And in this universe, the ghosts of the dead linger, sometimes visible, sometimes speaking to the living. Johan Eschbach has retired from service as an agent of the government of Colombia and gone north to teach at a university in his native Dutch territory. Research is being conducted in the university's physics department - research on the control of ghosts - that is of interest to governments worldwide. And Johan is forced by his former employers to work again as a spy. When he discovers too much, he is marked for death. But at least one ghost wants to keep him alive.
- ISBN10 0812548221
- ISBN13 9780812548228
- Publish Date 15 November 1995 (first published 1 October 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 May 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English