Martha Wells
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 (Tordotcom, 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+.
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
Martha Wells
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Martha Wells
It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear.
It worries about the fragile human crew who've grown to trust it, but only where no one can see.
It tells itself that they're only a professional obligation, but when they're captured and an old friend from the past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.
Drastic action it is, then.
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
Martha Wells
No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall.
When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)
Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!
Again!
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Martha Wells
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.
But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast.
Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.
Witch King
Martha Wells
"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 being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate water trap, Kai wakes to find a lesser mage attempting to harness Kai’s magic to his own advantage. That was never going to go well.
But why was Kai imprisoned in the first place? What has changed in the world since his assassination? And why does the Rising World Coalition appear to be growing in influence?
Kai will need to pull his allies close and draw on all his pain magic if he is to answer even the least of these questions.
He’s not going to like the answers.
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (The Murderbot Diaries, #4.5)
Martha Wells
Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory was originally given free to readers who pre-ordered Martha’s Murderbot novel, Network Effect, the fifth entry in the series. The events occur just after the fourth novella, Exit Strategy.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Element of Fire (Ile-Rien, #1)
Martha Wells
The kingdom of Ile-Rien is in peril, menaced by magical threats and court intrigue. As the weak King Roland, misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only his ruthless mother, the Dowager Queen Ravenna, truly guards the safety of the realm. But now Urbain Grandier, the dark master of scientific sorcery, has arrived to plot against the throne and Kade, bastard sister of the king, has appeared unexpectedly at court. The illegitimate daughter of the old king and the Queen of Air and Darkness herself, Kade's true goals are cloaked in mystery. Is she in league with the wizard Grandier? Or is she laying claim to the throne? It falls to Thomas Boniface, Captain of the Queen's Guard and Ravenna's former lover, to sort out who is friend, who is foe in a deadly game to keep the Dowager Queen and the kingdom she loves from harm.
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
Martha Wells
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah’s SecUnit is.
And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.
The Cloud Roads (Books of the Raksura, #1)
Martha Wells
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. Just as Moon is once again cast out by his adopted tribe, he discovers a shape-shifter like himself... someone who seems to know exactly what he is, who promises that Moon will be welcomed into his community. What this stranger doesn't tell Moon is that his presence will tip the balance of power... that his extraordinary lineage is crucial to the colony's survival... and that his people face extinction at the hands of the dreaded Fell! Now Moon must overcome a lifetime of conditioning in order to save himself... and his newfound kin.
Compulsory (The Murderbot Diaries, #0.5)
Martha Wells
Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by Martha Wells—has proven to be one of the most popular characters in 21 st century science fiction. Everything that makes this protagonist (it would be wrong to call Murderbot a hero) beloved of fans is on display in Compulsory.
While trying to watch episode 44 of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot is—again, what is it with humans?—distracted by something that is technically outside its purview. A miner is suddenly in danger following a pointless (to Murderbot’s way of thinking) argument, and the choice is to risk discovery and leap into action, which would require hitting the pause button during a very exciting part of SanctuaryMoon, or to follow orders and stay still.
This is a tougher choice than it seems. But then, when has Murderbot ever been faced with an easy choice?
A shorter version of this story originally appeared in Wired magazine.
City of Bones
Martha Wells
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 the Ancients to survive in the Waste, and Sagai, his human partner, are relic dealers working in the bottom tiers of society, trying to stay one step ahead of the Trade Inspectors.
When Khat is hired by the all-powerful Warders to find relics believed to be part of one of the Ancients' arcane engines, he, and his party, begin unravelling the mysteries of an age-old technology.
This they expected.
They soon find themselves as the last line of defense between the suffering masses of Charisat and a fanatical cult, bent on unleashing an evil upon the city with an undying thirst for bone.
That, they did not expect.
This updated and revised edition is the author’s preferred text.
The Death of the Necromancer (Ile-Rien, #2)
Martha Wells
Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman with an enigmatic past. Consumed by thoughts of vengeance, he is consoled only by thoughts of the beautiful, dangerous Madeline. He is also the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien... On the gas light streets of the city, he assumes the guise of a master criminal, stealing jewels from wealthy nobles to finance his quest for vengeance the murder of Count Montesq. Montesq orchestrated the wrongful execution of Nicholas's beloved godfather on false charges of necromancy--the art of divination through communion with spirits of the dead--a practice long outlawed in the kingdom of Ile-Rein.
But now Nicholas's murderous mission is being interrupted by a series of eerie, unexplainable, even fatal events. Someone with tremendous magical powers is opposing him. Children vanish, corpses assume the visage of real people, mortal spells are cast, and traces of necromantic power that hasn't been used for centuries are found. And when a spiritualist unwittingly leads Nicholas to a decrepit mansion, the monstrous nature of his peril finally emerges in harrowing detail. Nicholas and his compatriots must destroy an ancient and awesome evil. Even the help of Ile-Rien's greatest sorcerer may not be enough, for Nicholas faces a woefully mismatched battle--and unthinkable horrors await the loser.
Exit Strategy [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Murderbot Diaries 4 (Murderbot Diaries)
Martha Wells
Emilie and the Hollow World (Emilie, #1)
Martha Wells
Stories of the Raksura, Volume 1: The Falling World & The Tale of Indigo and Cloud
Martha Wells
Queen Demon (The Rising World, #2)
Martha Wells
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 believes he has clues to the location of the Hierarchs' Well, and the Witch King Kai, along with his companions Ziede and Tahren, knowing there's something he isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, which may be dangerously close to finding the Well itself.
Can Kai stop the rise of a new Hierarch?
And can he trust his companions to do what’s right?
Follow Kai to the end of the world in this thrilling sequel to the USA Today-bestselling Witch King.
The Murderbot Diaries #1-4: : All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy
Martha Wells
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."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid ― a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.
But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
Martha Wells
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 those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah—its former owner (protector? friend?)—submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.
But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?
And what will become of it when it’s caught?
Star Wars: Razor's Edge (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion #1)
Martha Wells
《星球大战：公主危机》是“星球大战”官方小说。莱娅·奥加纳公主和汉·索罗率领一支代表团，前去进行一次关乎义军存亡的商业谈判：采购原材料，来建设新的秘密总部。然而，就在快要成功到达会面地点时，他们的飞船遭遇帝国护卫舰的攻击，究竟是谁向帝国泄了密？在飞船受损严重的情况下，他们又遇到一群海盗袭击一艘商船，而莱娅随后的发现更是让人震惊：袭击者居然来自莱娅的故乡。为了生存，他们早已沦为掠夺成性的海盗，还欠了一支海盗舰队一大笔钱。 莱娅的内心在负疚感和职责之间苦苦挣扎，但她最终打定主意，就算帝国武装正在步步紧逼，她还是要冒着生命危险去弄清真相，去救助商船上的无辜船员。然而，当她登上海盗船时，却被送到了海盗头子那里。在这里，一旦 公主的身份暴露，这支海盗舰队一定会乐呵呵地抓住公主，去跟帝国索要赏金。 于是，莱娅、汉·索罗、卢克、丘巴卡，还有做好战斗准备的船员，他们尽管被困在暴徒和追兵之间，但为了延续义军的生存，所有人都必须背水一战！
The Book of Ile-Rien: The Element of Fire & The Death of the Necromancer (Ile-Rien, #1-2)
Martha Wells
Collecting Martha Wells' The Element of Fire and The 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 series
Both novels included in this volume have been revised and updated. These are the author’s preferred texts.
The Element of Fire
The kingdom of Ile-Rien lies in peril, menaced by sorcerous threats and devious intrigue, when Kade, bastard sister of King Roland, appears unexpectedly at court. The illegitimate daughter of the old king and the Queen of Air and Darkness herself, Kade's true desires are cloaked in mystery.
It falls to Thomas Boniface, Captain of the Queen's Guard, to keep the kingdom from harm. But is one man's steel enough to counter all the magic of fayre?
The Death of the Necromancer
Nicholas Valiarde is a passionate, embittered nobleman and the greatest thief in all of Ile-Rien. On the gaslight streets of the city, Nicholas assumes the guise of a master criminal, stealing jewels from wealthy nobles to finance his quest for a long-pursued vengeance.
But Nicholas's murderous mission is being interrupted by a series of eerie, unexplainable, and fatal events. A dark magic opposes him, and traces of a necromantic power that hasn't been used for centuries abound. Nicholas and his compatriots find themselves battling an ancient evil.
And if they lose? Death would be preferable to the fate that awaits them....
The Future of Work: Compulsory
Martha Wells
Untitled (The Murderbot Diaries, #9)
Martha Wells
Untitled (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)
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The Gate of Gods (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #3)
Martha Wells
The Ships of Air (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #2)
Martha Wells
The Wizard Hunters (The Fall of Ile-Rien, #1)
Martha Wells
Sistemas críticos (Los diarios de Matabot, #1)
Martha Wells
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Rogue Protocol [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Murderbot Diaries 3
Martha Wells
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 are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is.
And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.
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Martha Wells' Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk.
Read Rogue Protocol and find out why Hugo Award winner Ann Leckie wrote, "I love Murderbot!"
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Fugitive Telemetry [Dramatized Adaptation]: The Murderbot Diaries 6
Martha Wells
Dnevnici Ubibota - Drugi deo - Efekat mreže (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Martha Wells
Dnevnici Ubibota - Prvi deo
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Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
Martha Wells
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 title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks.
Alternate cover of ISBN 9781250186928. Another cover edition can be found here
Всі системи: небезпека (Щоденники вбивцебота, #1)
Martha Wells
Alerta Vermelho (Diário de um robô-assassino, #1)
Martha Wells
The Edge of Worlds (The Books of the Raksura, #4)
Martha Wells
The Harbors of the Sun (The Books of the Raksura, #5)
Martha Wells
The Serpent Sea (Books of the Raksura, #2)
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The Siren Depths (Books of the Raksura, #3)
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Wheel of the Infinite
Martha Wells
Over the course of three extraordinary novels, Martha Wells has established herself as a master builder of alternate worlds peopled with souls as rich and complex as any that have ever known life within book pages. Few writers can match her ability to imbue fantastic realms with such startling immediacy and reality-a feat she accomplishes more impressively than ever before in this powerful tale of the beginnings and endings and beginnings again in an unending cycle of malignity and good.
Wheel of the Infinite
Every year in the great Temple City of Duvalpore, 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 sacred rite takes on added significance. For it is then that the very fabric of the world must be rewoven. Linked by the mystic energies of the Infinite, the Wheel and world are one. Should the holy image be marred, the world will suffer a similar injury.
But a black storm is spreading across the Wheel. Every night the Voices of the Ancestors-the Wheel's constructors and caretakers-brush the darkness away and repair the damage with brightly colored sands and potent magic. Each morning the storm reappears, bigger and darker than before, unraveling the beautiful and orderly patterns.
With chaos in the wind, a woman with a shadowy past has returned to Duvalpore. A murderer and traitor-an exile disgraced, hated, and feared, and haunted by her own guilty conscience-Maskelle has been summoned back to help put the world right. Once she was the most revered of the Voices, until cursed by her own actions. Now, in the company of Rian--a skilled and dangerously alluring swordsman--she must confront dread enemies old and new and a cold, stalking malevolence unlike any she has ever encountered. For if Maskelle cannot unearth the cause of the Wheel's accelerating disintegration-if she cannot free herself from ghosts of the past and focus on the catastrophe to come-the world will plunge headlong into the terrifying abyss toward which it is recklessly hurting. And all that is, ever was, and will be will end.
An intricate, tautly plotted adventure, Nebula Award finalist Martha Wells' fourth novel is her most captivating and exquisitely textured work to date. Follow the many turnings of the Wheel into a realm of danger, fear, darkness, and hope. And prepare to believe freely and fully in the inconceivable and the fantastic.
Murderbot Diaries Collection Complete Hardcover Series Set (#1-6)
Martha Wells
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Artificial Condition [Dramatized Adaptation] The Murderbot Diaries 2
Martha Wells
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling 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 title, and it wants to know more.
Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.
What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…
Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music!
Murderbot. I diari della macchina assassina (The Murderbot Diaries #1-4)
Martha Wells
OGNI ASPETTO DALLA VITA è dominato dalle grandi corporazioni, missioni interplanetarie comprese: è la compagnia, infatti, che le gestisce, rifornendole di tutto il necessario. "Tutto il necessario" comprende anche gli androidi di sorveglianza, che tutelano l'incolumità delle squadre d'esplorazione. Ma in una società in cui i contratti vengono aggiudicati al miglior offerente, la sicurezza non è esattamente in cima alla lista delle priorità. E così può capitare qualche imprevisto.
Per esempio qualcosa di strano succede su un lontano pianeta, dove alcuni scienziati stanno conducendo rilievi sulla superficie, convinti che l'Unità di Sicurezza con componenti organiche fornita dalla compagnia vegli su di loro. Murderbot, però, è riuscita a hackerare il proprio modulo di controllo, e si è accorta di avere accesso ai file multimediali di tutti i canali di intrattenimento. E così preferisce di gran lunga passare il suo tempo tra film, musica, serie tv, libri, giochi, piuttosto che dedicarsi a quegli incarichi noiosi e ripetitivi che non lasciano spazio al suo libero arbitrio. Dotata di una sensibilità tutt'altro che meccanica, Murderbot inizia un avventuroso viaggio alla ricerca di sé che la porterà a scoprirsi assai diversa da quello che i suoi protocolli avrebbero previsto.
La raccolta contiene i romanzi brevi:
1. ALLARME ROSSO
2. CONDIZIONE ARTIFICIALE
3. PROTOCOLLO RIBELLE
4. STRATEGIA DI USCITA
The Tale of Indigo and Cloud (Books of the Raksura, #0.1)
Martha Wells
The Tale of Indigo and Cloud explores the history of the Indigo Cloud Court, long before Moon came to Court. In the distant past, Indigo stole Cloud from Emerald Twilight. But in doing so, the reigning Queen Cerise and Indigo are now poised for a conflict that could ruin everything.
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