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Martha Wells
The Invisible Woman
Paid Account, Created on 3 July 2004 (#3681453), Last updated on 23 May 2013 [Gift]
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- Texas, United States
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- http://www.marthawells.com
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- Bio
- Journal for fantasy writer Martha Wells.
Martha Wells was born in 1964 in Fort Worth, Texas, and graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.A. in Anthropology. Her first novel, The Element of Fire, was published by Tor in hardcover in July 1993 and was a finalist for the 1993 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award and a runner-up for the 1994 Crawford Award. The French edition, Le feu primordial, was a 2003 Imaginales Award nominee. Her second novel for Tor, City of Bones, was a 1995 hardcover and June 1996 paperback release. Both novels were on the Locus recommended reading lists. Her third novel The Death of the Necromancer (Avon Eos) was a 1998 Nebula Award Nominee and the French edition was a 2002 Imaginales Award nominee. Her fourth novel Wheel of the Infinite (HarperCollins Eos) was a 2000 hardcover and 2001 December paperback release.
The Wizard Hunters (HarperCollins Eos/May 2003), The Ships of Air (HarperCollins Eos/July 2004) and The Gate of Gods (HarperCollins Eos/November 2005) are a fantasy trilogy taking place in the world of Ile-Rien from The Element of Fire and The Death of the Necromancer. As of 2004 her books have been translated into eight languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, and Dutch.
Her newest fantasy novels are The Cloud Roads released by Night Shade Books in March 2011. The sequel, The Serpent Sea, was released in January 2012.
Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary was released in March 2006. Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement was released in March 2007.
She has also had short stories in the magazines Realms of Fantasy, Black Gate, the Tsunami Relief charity anthology Elemental, The Year's Best Fantasy #7, the online magazine Lone Star Stories, and an SG-1 story in the January/February 2006 issue of Stargate Magazine. She has nonfiction articles in the non-fiction anthologies Farscape Forever and Mapping the World of Harry Potter from BenBella Books.