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Martha Wells has been a sci-fi/fantasy writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993. 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 and its sequel Queen Demon. 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.

Martha Wells is the recipient Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, an Alex Award, and a Dragon Award. Her work has appeared on the World Fantasy Award ballot, the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA 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 thirty languages. She is also a consulting producer on the Murderbot series for Apple TV+.

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opens in a new window Hardback	Queen Demon 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 the families we choose. Dahin, a beloved member of...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	The Emilie Adventures Two novel-length steampunk adventures from the author of the wildly successful Murderbot Diaries. Together in one volume for the first time: Emilie and the Hollow World Running away from home and stowing away on the wrong ship, Emilie embarks on a fantastic adventure. Emilie learns that the crew hopes to...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 3 *The adventures of Murderbot continue in the fifth and sixth novellas from New York Times* bestselling and award-winning author Martha Wells, collected in paperback for the first time!** “No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.” In Fugitive Telemetry, when Murderb...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 2 *The adventures of Murderbot continue in novellas three and four from New York Times* bestselling and award-winning author Martha Wells, collected in paperback for the first time!** “Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?” Science fiction’s favorite antisocial A.I. is b...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1 Now an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård. The first two novellas in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot series, collected in paperback for the first time! "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." First, r...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	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 hundred years the very fabric of the world must be rewoven. Linked by the mystic en...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	Witch King 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 having a long day in Martha Wells' WITCH KING.... After ...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	The Book of Ile-Rien A USA-Today Bestseller! Collecting Martha Wells' Element of Fire and Death of the Necromancer for the first time in one place, in a new and revised edition! From the author of Witch King and the Murderbot Diaries: Both novels included in this volume have been revised and updated. These ...Read More
opens in a new window Hardback	System Collapse *A New York Times, Washington Post, and 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 I'm making it worse. Following the events in <...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	City of Bones *Before Martha Wells captured the hearts of MILLIONS with her Murderbot series, there was Khat, Sagai, and Elen, and a city risen out of death and decay…* The city of Charisat, a tiered monolith of the Ancients’ design, sits on the edge of the vast desert known as the Waste. Khat, a member of a humanoid race created by th...Read More
opens in a new window Hardback	Fugitive Telemetry *A standalone adventure in the New York Times* and USA Today-bestselling, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning series! The 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 ...Read More
opens in a new window Trade Paperback	Network Effect WINNER of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards! *The first full-length novel in Martha Wells' New York Times* and USA Today bestselling Murderbot Diaries series.** Named a Best of the Year by NPR \| Book Riot \| Polygon “I caught myself rereading my favor...Read More
opens in a new window Hardback	The Murderbot Diaries Experience the first four volumes of Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries together in a hardcover boxset. Now an Apple TV+ series starring Alexander Skarsgård! "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future,...Read More
opens in a new window Hardback	All Systems Red Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award for Best Novella Winner of the Alex Award *A New York Times* and USA Today Bestseller Now an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård. A murderous andro...Read More**
opens in a new window Hardback	Exit Strategy Martha Wells returns to her Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, in Exit Strategy. 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...Read More
opens in a new window Hardback	Rogue Protocol Rogue Protocol is the third entry in Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries. Starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humani...Read More
opens in a new window Hardback	Artificial Condition **Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling All Systems Red. The "I love Murderbot!" —New York Times bestselling author Ann Leckie** It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were kille...Read More