Martha Wells

Martha Wells
Martha Wells
Born 1964
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Occupation Author
Nationality United States
Genres Fantasy and science fiction

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Martha Wells is an American fantasy and science fiction author.

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Biography

Martha Wells was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1964 and has a B.A. in Anthropology from Texas A&M University. She has published eight fantasy novels, two Stargate Atlantis tie-in novels, and several short stories. Her novels have been translated into eight languages.[1]

Wells' first published novel, The Element of Fire (1993), was a finalist for that year's Compton Crook Award, and a runner-up for the 1994 William Crawford Award. Her second novel, City of Bones (1995) received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and a black diamond review from Kirkus Reviews, and was on the 1995 Locus Recommended Reading List for fantasy. Her third novel, The Death of the Necromancer (1998), was nominated for a Nebula Award.[2] The Element of Fire and The Death of the Necromancer are stand-alone novels which take place in the country of Ile-Rien, which is also the setting for the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy: The Wizard Hunters (2003), The Ships of Air (2004), and The Gate of Gods (2005). Her fourth novel was a stand-alone fantasy, Wheel of the Infinite. In 2006, she released a revised edition of The Element of Fire which is also available in HTML on her website.[3]

Her fantasy short stories include "The Potter's Daughter" in the anthology Elemental (2006), which has been selected to appear in The Year's Best Fantasy #7 (2007).[4] This story features one of the main characters from The Element of Fire. Three prequel short stories to the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy were published in Black Gate Magazine in 2007 [5][6] and 2008.[7]

Wells is known for the complex, realistically detailed societies she creates; this is often credited to her academic background in anthropology.[8][9]

In February 2006, she published Reliquary, a novel set in the Stargate Atlantis universe. Another Stargate Atlantis novel, Entanglement, was published in spring 2007. Wells also wrote "Archaeology 101," a short story based on Stargate SG-1 for issue #8 (Jan/Feb 2006) of the official Stargate Magazine. (See Stargate literature)

She has recently sold two new fantasy novels to Night Shade Books. The first, The Cloud Roads (ISBN 978-1-59780-216-1), was published in March 2011,[10] and the sequel, The Serpent Sea, will follow in January 2012.[11]

Published works

Cover of the novel Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary

Stand-alone fantasy novels

Ile-Rien stories

Listed in order of the internal chronology, not by year of publication.

  • "The Potter's Daughter" (2006 short story, Elemental: the Tsunami Relief Anthology ISBN 0-765-31562-9, The Year's Best Fantasy #7 ISBN 9-781-89239150-6)
  • The Element of Fire (1993, ISBN 312-85374-2; revised edition 2006, ISBN 0-615-13571-4)
  • The Death of the Necromancer (1998, ISBN 0-380-97334-0)

Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy

Stargate stories

Other short stories

  • "Thorns" (1995, Realms of Fantasy)
  • "Bad Medicine" (1997, Realms of Fantasy)
  • "Wolf Night" (2006, Lone Star Stories[1])
  • "Reflections" (2007, Black Gate Magazine)
  • "Holy Places" (2007, Black Gate Magazine)
  • "Houses of the Dead" (2008, Black Gate Magazine)

Non-fiction

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