Modal is in the first of Charles L. Fontenay's Tales of the Modals. Set in a stark and primitive future where climatic change and techtonic shift have rendered unsustainable most of the technological advances of twentieth century civilaization, a few people try to use the discipline of the martial arts and the theory of Multiple Intelligences to create a new sort of a leader--The Modal.
Charles Louis Fontenay was an American journalist and science fiction writer.
He wrote science fiction novels and short stories. His non-fiction includes the biography of prominent New Deal era politician Estes Kefauver.
Mr. Fontenay served as editor of the Nashville Tennessean, among other newspapers, worked with the Associated Press and Gannett News Service. He retired to St. Petersburg, Florida where he continued to write science fiction until shortly before his death.