Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King (Tor.com, 2023). She has also written media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, and a Dragon Award, and her work has appeared on the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the British Science Fiction Association Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, the Sunday Times Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. She is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and her books have been published in twenty-five languages.
She is also a consulting producer on The Murderbot Diaries series for Apple TV+.
Books in order of publication:
Stand-alone fantasy novels
City of Bones (1995)
Wheel of the Infinite (2000)
Witch King (2023)
Ile-Rien
The Element of Fire (1993, revised edition 2006)
The Death of the Necromancer (1998)
The Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy:
The Wizard Hunters (2003)
The Ships of Air (2004)
The Gate of Gods (2005)
Between Worlds: the Collected Cineth and Ile-Rien Stories (2015):
“The Potter’s Daughter” – a prequel to the novel The Element of Fire (2006 short story, Elemental: the Tsunami Relief Anthology, The Year’s Best Fantasy #7)
“Holy Places (2007”)
“Rites of Passage”
“Houses of the Dead” (2008,)
“Reflections” – the Giliead and Ilias stories, prequels to the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy (2007)
“Night at the Opera” – a Nicholas and Reynard story original to this collection, set before The Death of the Necromancer (also in PodCastle Episode 400)
Books of the Raksura
The Cloud Roads (2011)
The Serpent Sea (2012)
The Siren Depths (2012)
Stories of the Raksura Vol 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud (2014)
Stories of the Raksura Vol 2: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below (2015,)
The Edge of Worlds (2016)
The Harbors of the Sun (2017)
Short stories
“The Forest Boy” (2009) – prequel to The Cloud Roads. In the collection Stories of the Raksura Vol 1.
“The Almost Last Voyage of the Wind-ship Escarpment” (2011) – set in the same world. In the collection Stories of the Raksura Vol 2.
“Adaptation” (2012) – prequel to The Cloud Roads. In the collection Stories of the Raksura Vol 1.
“Mimesis” (2013) – in the anthology The Other Half of the Sky (2013) and in the collection Stories of the Raksura Vol 2.
“Trading Lesson” (2013) – in the collection Stories of the Raksura Vol 1
“Birthright” (2017) – in the anthology Mech: Age of Steel (2013,)
Emilie
Young-adult fantasy
Emilie and the Hollow World (2013)
Emilie and the Sky World (2014)
Star Wars
Empire and Rebellion: Razor’s Edge (2013)
“Bespin Escape” The Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View (2020)
Stargate universe
Main article: Stargate literature
Reliquary (2006 Stargate Atlantis novel)
Entanglement (2007 Stargate Atlantis novel)
“Archaeology 101” (2006 Stargate SG-1 short story, Stargate Magazine)
The Murderbot Diaries
Science fiction series:
Main article: The Murderbot Diaries
All Systems Red (2017 Tor.com novella)
Artificial Condition (2018 Tor.com novella)
Rogue Protocol (2018 Tor.com novella)
Exit Strategy (2018 Tor.com novella)
“Compulsory” (2018 Wired short story)
“Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory” (2020 Tor.com short story)
Network Effect (2020 Tor.com novel)
Fugitive Telemetry (2021 Tor.com novella)
System Collapse (2023, Tor.com novel)
Other short stories
“Thorns” (1995, Realms of Fantasy)
“Bad Medicine” (1997, Realms of Fantasy)
“Wolf Night” (2006, Lone Star Stories)
“Revenants” (2012, in the anthology Tales of the Emerald Serpent)
“Soul of Fire” (2014, in the anthology Tales of the Emerald Serpent II: A Knight in the Silk Purse)
“The Dark Gates” (2015, in the anthology The Gods of Lovecraft)
“Obsolescence” Take Us to a Better Place (2020)
“The Salt Witch” (2020)
Non-fiction
“Don’t Make Me Tongue You: John Crichton and D’Argo and the Dysfunctional Buddy Relationship” (2005, Farscape Forever)
“Neville Longbottom: the Hero with a Thousand Faces” (2006, Mapping the World of Harry Potter)
“Donna Noble Saves the Universe” (2012, Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who)
“A Life Less Ordinary: The Environment, Magic Systems, and Non-Humans” (2014, A Kobold Guide to Magic)
“The Ups and Downs of a Long Career” (2019, The Writer’s Book of Doubt)
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