Martha Wells

Two novel-length YA 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 use an experimental engine to journey to the interior...

Celebrate the legacy of The Empire Strikes Back with this exciting reimagining of the timeless film featuring new perspectives from forty acclaimed authors. On May 21, 1980, Star Wars became a true saga with the release of The Empire Strikes Back. In honour of the fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from The Empire Strikes Back through the...

The adventures of Murderbot continue in novellas three and four, collected in paperback for the first time! "Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?" Science fiction's favourite antisocial A.I. is back in Rogue Protocol! The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about...

The first two novellas in the New York Times bestselling Murderbot series, collected in paperback for the first time! "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." First, read the story that started the Murderbot phenomenon in All Systems Red! On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid -...

The adventures of Murderbot continue in the fifth and sixth novellas, 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 Murderbot discovers a body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to...

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 Dahin isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, where all the evidence leads. Can Kai stop the rise of a new Hierarch? And can he trust his companions...

Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series Martha Wells returns to the Raksura with a pair of brand-new novellas! In The Falling World, Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud Court, has travelled with Chime and Balm to another Raksuran court. When she fails to return, her consort, Moon, along with Stone and a party of warriors and...

The Third Novel in the Hugo Award-Nominated Books of the Raksura series, from New York Times Bestselling Author Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries). All his life, Moon roamed the Three Worlds, a solitary wanderer forced to hide his true nature—until he was reunited with his own kind, the Raksura, and found a new life as consort to Jade, sister queen...

An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have travelled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient city at the edge of the shallow seas, near the deeps of the impassable Ocean. They believe it to be...

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...

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 Dahin isn't telling them, travel with him to the rebuilt university of Ancartre, where all the evidence leads. Can Kai stop the rise of a new Hierarch? And can he trust his companions...

Nominated for the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Novel 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 being murdered, his...

Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series Moon, Jade, and other favourites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells. Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from...

Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells follows the story of Moon, who has spent his life hiding his true nature—a shape-shifter able to transform into a winged creature of flight. As an orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon tries to integrate into the tribes of his river...

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 energies of the Infinite, the Wheel and world are one. But a black storm is spreading across the...

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! Emotion check: Oh, for f-

Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f-) Platform Decay continues the thrilling adventures of Murderbot...

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...

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same, since. The series has grown with every release, with book #2 debuting at 95 on the USA Today Bestseller List, #3 at 77, and #4 at 48. A quarter of a million copies later, Murderbot is...

The second novel in the Hugo Award-nominated Books of the Raksura series, from New York Times bestselling author Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries). Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. Together, they travel with their people on a pair of flying ships in hopes of finding a new home for...

Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. Together, they travel with their people on a pair of flying ships in hopes of finding a new home for their colony. Moon finally feels like he's found a tribe where he belongs. But...

For the first time, experience the first four hardcover volumes of Martha Wells' New York Times Bestselling series together in a boxset. "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. But...

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling Murderbot series exploded onto the scene in 2017, and the world has not been the same since. The series has grown with every release, with book #2 debuting at 95 on the USA Today Bestseller List, #3 at 77, and #4 at 48. A quarter of a million copies later, Murderbot is...

Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series The Cloud Roads follows Moon, who has spent his life hiding his true nature—a shape-shifter able to transform into a winged creature. As an orphan with only vague memories of his own kind, Moon strives to fit in among the tribes of his river valley, albeit with mixed success. Just as...

"I love Murderbot!" – Ann Leckie The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red. 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 travelled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous...

Artificial Condition continues The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an...