| Martha Wells | |
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| Born | 1964 Fort Worth, Texas, United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genres | Fantasy and science fiction |
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www.marthawells.com |
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Martha Wells is an American fantasy and science fiction author.
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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]
Listed in order of the internal chronology, not by year of publication.