Martha Wells

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 1994
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Full Series List in Order

The Fall of Ile-Rien

1 - The Wizard Hunters (May-2003)
2 - The Ships of Air (Jul-2004)
3 - The Gate of Gods (Nov-2005)

Murderbot Diaries

1 - All Systems Red (May-2017)
2 - Artificial Condition (Feb-2018)
3 - Rogue Protocol (Aug-2018)
4 - Exit Strategy (Oct-2018)
5 - Network Effect (May-2020)
5.5 - Home (Apr-2021)
6 - Fugitive Telemetry (May-2021)
7 - System Collapse (Nov-2023)

Raksura

1 - The Cloud Roads (Feb-2011)
2 - The Serpent Sea (Jan-2012)
3 - The Siren Depths (Dec-2012)

The Rising World

1 - Witch King (Jun-2023)
2 - Queen Demon (Oct-2025)

Multi-Author Series List

Star Wars

Razor's Edge (Sep-2013)

Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion

Razor's Edge (Sep-2013)

Stargate

Reliquary (Feb-2006)
Entanglement (May-2007)

Stargate Atlantis

2 - Reliquary (Feb-2006)
6 - Entanglement (May-2007)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • The Element of Fire

    Scientific magic and fairy magic collide headlong in the threatened kingdom of Ile-Rien, where the Captain of the Queen's Guard fights a perilous battle standing between opposing forces seeking to topping the kingdom's young king. Reprint....

  • City of Bones

    Where once great galleons roamed the seas, sand ships now traverse the Great Waste, and a glittering chain of city-states dots the desert that has no end.... And the greatest city of all is Charisat: Imperial seat and wonder of wonders, a great...

  • The Death of the Necromancer

    Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts of vengeance, he is also the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien, stealing jewels from wealthy nobles to finance his quest: the murder of Count Montesq. Montesq orc...

  • Wheel of the Infinite

    A traitor and a swordsman join forces to save the world from being rewritten into devastation.Every year the image of the Wheel of the Infinite must be painstakingly remade to ensure another year of peace and harmony for the Celestial Empire. Every h...

  • The Wizard Hunters

    The Fall of Ile-Rien - 1

    Once a fertile and prosperous land, Ile-Rien is under attack by the Gardier, a mysterious army whose storm-black airships appear from nowhere to strike without warning. Every weapon in the arsenal of Ile-Rien's revered wizards has proven useless. ...

  • The Ships of Air

    The Fall of Ile-Rien - 2

    Despite a valiant struggle against superior forces, the country of Ile-Rien has fallen to the onslaught of the relentless Gardier, a faceless army of sorcerers determined to conquer all civilization. To save the remnants of her country, former pl...

  • The Gate of Gods

    The Fall of Ile-Rien - 3

    Known for her lush, intricate worlds and complex characters, acclaimed author Martha Wells has delighted readers with her extraordinary fantasy novels of daring and wit. With The Wizard Hunters and The Ships of Air, she launched her most ambitious un...

  • Reliquary

    Stargate
    Stargate Atlantis - 2

    Knowledge is power... While exploring the unused sections of the Ancient city of Atlantis, Major John Sheppard and Dr. Rodney McKay stumble on a recording device that reveals a mysterious new Stargate address. Believing that the address may lead t...

  • Entanglement

    Stargate
    Stargate Atlantis - 6

    Leap of faith... When Dr. Rodney McKay unlocks an Ancient mystery on a distant moon, he discovers a terrifying threat to the Pegasus galaxy. Determined to disable the device before it's discovered by the Wraith, Colonel John Sheppard and his ...



  • The Cloud Roads

    Raksura - 1

    Moon has spent his life hiding what he is - a shape-shifter able to transform himself into a winged creature of flight. An orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success....

  • The Serpent Sea

    Raksura - 2

    Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. Together, they travel with their people on a pair of flying ships in hopes of finding a new home for their colony. Moon finally feels like he's found ...

  • The Siren Depths

    Raksura - 3

    All his life, Moon roamed the Three Worlds, a solitary wanderer forced to hide his true nature -- until he was reunited with his own kind, the Raksura, and found a new life as consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. But now a rival...

  • Emilie and the Hollow World

    While running away from home for reasons that are eminently defensible, Emilie’s plans to stow away on the steamship Merry Bell and reach her cousin in the big city go awry, landing her on the wrong ship and at the beginning of a fantastic adventur...

  • Razor's Edge

    Star Wars
    Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion

    Times are desperate for the Rebel Alliance. Harassment by the Empire and a shortage of vital supplies are hindering completion of a new secret base on the ice planet Hoth. So when Mid Rim merchants offer much-needed materials for sale, Princess Leia ...

  • Emilie and the Sky World

    When Emilie and Daniel arrive in Silk Harbor, Professor Abindon, an old colleague of the Marlendes, warns them that she’s observed something strange and potentially deadly in the sky, a disruption in an upper air aether current. But as the Marlende...

  • The Falling World

    Martha Wells returns to the Raksura with a pair of brand-new novellas! In "The Falling World," Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud Court, has traveled with Chime and Balm to another Raksuran court. When she fails to return, her consort, Moon, a...

  • The Tale of Indigo and Cloud

    Martha Wells returns to the world of Raksura (The Cloud Roads, The Serpent Sea, and The Siren Depths) with a new four-volume series of novellas set in this fascinating world. The Tale of Indigo and Cloud explores the history of the Indigo Cloud Co...

  • Between Worlds

    This collection of short stories and novelettes includes the previously published stories “The Potter’s Daughter” (a prequel to the novel The Element of Fire), “Holy Places,” “Rites of Passage,” “Houses of the Dead,” “Reflections...

  • The Gods of HP Lovecraft

    ***TOP TEN SELECTION FOR BOOKLIST BEST OF HORROR 2016*** The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the twelve principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose within its pages. Featuring the bigg...



  • The Edge of Worlds

    An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient cit...

  • All Systems Red

    Murderbot Diaries - 1

    A murderous android discovers itself in ALL SYSTEMS RED, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence. "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." ...

  • The Harbors of the Sun

    A former friend has betrayed the Raksura and their groundling companions, and now the survivors must race across the Three Worlds to rescue their kidnapped family members. When Moon and Stone are sent ahead to scout, they quickly encounter an unexpec...

  • The Dark Earth Below

    In "The Dark Earth Below," Moon and Jade face their biggest adventure yet; their first clutch. But even as Moon tries to prepare for impending fatherhood, members of the Kek village in the colony tree's roots go missing, and searching for them only l...

  • The Dead City

    ""The Dead City" is a tale of Moon before he came to the Indigo Court. As Moon is fleeing the ruins of Saraseil, a groundling city destroyed by the Fell, he flies right into another potential disaster when a friendly caravanserai finds itself under a...

  • Artificial Condition

    Murderbot Diaries - 2

    The follow-up to the hugely popular All Systems Red It has a dark past -- one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that ti...

  • Rogue Protocol

    Murderbot Diaries - 3

    Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas? Sci-fi's favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities ar...

  • Exit Strategy

    Murderbot Diaries - 4

    Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as th...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2019

    The latest edition of the very best science fiction and fantasy as selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

    The Nebula Awards Showcase is an anthology of the winners and nominees...

  • Network Effect

    Murderbot Diaries - 5

    Martha Wells' New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since. Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effe...



  • Home

    Murderbot Diaries - 5.5

    "Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory" is a short story set in the world of Martha Well's Murderbot Diaries. This story was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Network Effect, the fifth entry in the series. The events of "Home: Habitat...

  • Fugitive Telemetry

    Murderbot Diaries - 6

    The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits...

  • Witch King

    The Rising World - 1

    Winner of the Locus Award!From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose."I didn't know you were a... demon.""You idiot. I'm the demon."Kai's ...

  • Compulsory

    Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by MarthaWells—has proven to be one of the most popular characters in 21st century science fiction.Everything that makes this protagonist (it would be wrong to call ...

  • System Collapse

    Murderbot Diaries - 7

    A New York Times bestseller.A Washington Post bestseller.A USA Today bestseller.Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.Am I making it worse? I think ...

  • Queen Demon

    The Rising World - 2

    From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes the remarkable sequel to the USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling novel, Witch King. A fantasy of epic scope, Queen Demon is a story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of th...

Award-Winning Books by Martha Wells

All Systems Red
2017 Nebula Award -- Novella
2018 Alex Award -- Adult/For Young Adults
2018 Hugo Award -- Novella
2018 Locus Award -- Novella
Artificial Condition
2019 Hugo Award -- Novella
2019 Locus Award -- Novella
Fugitive Telemetry
2022 Locus Award -- Novella
Network Effect
2020 Nebula Award -- Novel
2021 Hugo Award -- Novel
2021 Locus Award -- Science Fiction Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Martha Wells has published 35 books.

The next book by Martha Wells, Queen Demon, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by Martha Wells, The Element of Fire, was published in July 1994.

Yes. Martha Wells has 4 series.
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