Martha Wells Books in Order

In the kingdom of Ile Rien, Captain Thomas Boniface guards a sharp tongued dowager queen while scheming courtiers and a ruthless sorcerer plot around them. When the king's half fay sister Kade returns to court, old bargains with the Fay begin to unravel and Thomas has to separate ally from enemy.

In the desert city of Charisat, relic dealer Khat belongs to a nonhuman people engineered to survive the deadly Waste. Hired by powerful Warders to track down artifacts tied to an ancient engine, he and his partner Sagai are drawn into political games and a mystery that could reshape their fragile world.

Nicolas Valiarde has built a criminal empire in gaslit Vienne to fuel his revenge against the noble who destroyed his foster father. His plans are upended when signs point to the return of a legendary necromancer, forcing Nicolas and his mismatched allies to confront something far older than politics.

Every year priests renew the Wheel of the Infinite, a magical construct that keeps reality stable in Duvalpore, but this time a spreading black stain mars its patterns. Maskelle, an exiled former Voice of the Ancestors, is recalled to help uncover who is sabotaging the Wheel and why.

Ile Rien is losing a war against faceless enemies in black airships, and its greatest sorcerers are trapped behind a magical barrier. Cynical playwright Tremaine Valiarde is recruited to join an experimental mission that uses an unstable sphere to jump a captured ship between worlds in search of answers.

Now allied with warriors from another world, Tremaine and her companions sail the refitted liner Queen Ravenna across dangerous seas. Their goal is to locate hidden Gardier bases and uncover the source of the enemy's magic before Ile Rien and its new friends are crushed.

As the Gardier tighten their grip, Tremaine and her scattered allies race to free the besieged wizards of Lodun and close the portals the enemy uses. The final battle for Ile Rien will demand risky magic, uneasy diplomacy, and sacrifices from people who never wanted to be heroes.

While exploring hidden sections of Atlantis, Sheppard and McKay uncover a device that points to a forgotten Stargate address and the promise of an Ancient repository. On the ruined world they find instead a city of traps and secrets that threatens both their team and Atlantis itself.

On a remote moon, McKay activates a mysterious Ancient device and discovers it is tied to a threat that could draw the Wraith. As Sheppard's team races to shut it down, a stranded outsider with his own agenda forces them to weigh one life against the safety of the galaxy.

Moon is a lonely shapeshifter who hides what he is from the groundling communities that keep casting him out. When an older Raksura discovers him and brings him to the Indigo Cloud court, Moon must navigate rigid customs, lethal politics, and an escalating war with the monstrous Fell.

Now consort to Jade, Moon travels with Indigo Cloud on flying ships to reclaim their ancestral colony tree. When they find the immense tree slowly dying and its heartstone stolen, Moon leads a quest across the Serpent Sea to retrieve it before the court loses its new home.

Moon finally feels settled in Indigo Cloud when a powerful rival court claims him as one of their own. Sent to their distant territory, he has to uncover the truth about his birth court and face old enemies, while Jade decides how far she will go to keep him.

Running away from home, Emilie plans to hide on a coastal steamer and start a new life with her cousin. Instead she ends up aboard an experimental aether ship headed for the planet's hollow interior, where sabotage, lost explorers, and strange sea lands peoples turn flight into full blown adventure.

During a mission to secure crucial supplies for the Rebellion, Leia and Han are captured by pirates who turn out to be desperate survivors from Alderaan. Caught between helping her scattered people and protecting the Alliance, Leia has to outmaneuver both the raiders and the Empire closing in.

This anthology of space opera stories, edited by Athena Andreadis and Kay Holt, gathers adventures with women protagonists at the center. It includes Martha Wells's Raksura tale 'Mimesis' alongside work by many other science fiction authors.

Grieving middle schooler Manny Boreaux finds an old fantasy novel and a strange coin that hurl his mind into the body of a faerie street kid named Remy. Trapped in a dangerous magical city that echoes his own life, he must wield an enchanted sword and face his loss head on.

Back on the surface, Emilie joins Lady Marlende on an investigation into a deadly disturbance in the upper air. An aetheric ship from another plane has broken through, and chasing it into turbulent sky currents forces Emilie to juggle family conflicts with the dangers of first contact.

This volume pairs two Raksura novellas. In 'The Falling World' Moon and Stone search for Jade's missing party in an ancient trap filled forest, while 'The Tale of Indigo and Cloud' looks back to the fraught founding of Indigo Cloud court and the theft that almost sparked a war.

This standalone edition of the Raksura novella returns to the distant past of Indigo Cloud court. When Indigo steals the consort Cloud from the rival court of Emerald Twilight, old grudges and new alliances threaten to ignite a conflict that will shape the Reaches.

This collection gathers Ile Rien and Cineth short fiction, including tales of Kade Carrion, Nicolas Valiarde, and the god touched warrior Giliead. The stories fill in village hauntings, political schemes, and small scale crises that sit between the larger novels.

Groundling explorers arrive at Indigo Cloud asking for help entering a sealed ancient city at the edge of the ocean. Fearing a link to their own dangerous Forerunner past, Moon, Jade, and a small expedition join the mission, only to find the predatory Fell are hunting the same prize.

On a remote survey planet, a corporate owned security unit has secretly hacked its control system and named itself Murderbot. When its clients' mission is sabotaged, it has to choose between staying invisible and breaking cover to keep them alive.

In these linked novellas, a younger Moon stumbles into a besieged caravanserai near a ruined city, and later, as consort to Jade, faces eerie disappearances among the Kek village beneath Indigo Cloud. Both stories deepen the sense that the Three Worlds are full of old dangers just below the surface.

After a devastating betrayal, the Indigo Cloud court races across the Three Worlds to rescue kidnapped kin and stop a stolen artifact from unleashing disaster. Moon, Jade, Stone, and their allies must gamble everything to keep the Fell and their conspirators from remaking the Reaches.

Murderbot sneaks away to the mining facility where it once supposedly murdered its whole crew, hoping to learn the truth about that incident. Traveling with a sarcastic research transport AI, it has to pose as human and protect a new group of clients on a dangerous contract.

GrayCris strikes back by kidnapping Dr Mensah, the one human Murderbot really trusts. To get her back, it returns to the corporate heartland, reunites with old allies, and stages a risky operation inside a fortified spaceport where every security system is looking for it.

Still gathering evidence against the GrayCris corporation, Murderbot infiltrates an abandoned terraforming facility on Milu. There it befriends an earnest helper bot named Miki and is dragged into yet another rescue mission when corporate agents and combat machines close in.

Set just after Exit Strategy, this short story follows Dr Mensah on Preservation Station as she copes with political pressure and trauma from GrayCris. While defending her choices and her SecUnit, she has to decide what kind of future she wants for herself and Murderbot.

Assigned to a research mission with some familiar humans, Murderbot is dragged aboard a hostile ship and hauled through a wormhole. The vessel's mind is an old friend in trouble, and to save both the crew and a threatened colony, Murderbot has to confront an alien intelligence and its own growing attachments.

Before Network Effect, Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station and reluctantly agrees to help station security investigate. Solving the murder pulls it into corporate schemes, refugee smuggling, and uneasy teamwork with humans who still fear what it is.

In the aftermath of Network Effect, Murderbot and its Preservation allies are trying to stabilize a fragile colony before a rival corporation can strip it for profit. As more SecUnits arrive and tensions rise, Murderbot's unprocessed trauma starts to interfere with its work, forcing it to face what recovery might actually look like.

After being murdered and sealed in a magical prison, the demon Kai wakes to find the world he helped free from tyrants has shifted in unsettling ways. With his friend Ziede, he retraces the last days of a revolution and hunts the traitors who are trying to rebuild the old order.

Kai and his companions follow hints that the legendary Hierarchs' Well, source of terrifying magic, may not be as lost as it should be. Traveling to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, they have to decide whom to trust and how far they will go to stop a new tyrant from rising.

Set between Artificial Condition and Rogue Protocol, this short piece focuses on Perihelion, the starship AI nicknamed ART. When Peri and its crew respond to a corporate station in the middle of a hostile takeover, the mission tests the bonds between ship and humans without Murderbot there to mediate.

On a later assignment, Murderbot volunteers for a rescue mission that will strand it on a failing orbital platform with strangers, including children. Managing panicked civilians, hostile forces, and its own social discomfort may be harder than any firefight.