Series
Ile-Rien
Martha Wells · 5 novels · 1 novelette · 5 short stories · 1 collection · 1993–2015
The Ile-Rien books are a series of fantasy novels by Martha Wells set in the fictional country of Ile-Rien. It is a centralized monarchy governed by the Fontainon dynasty, governing from their ornate capital of Vienne. It is also the home of the university-city of Lodun, a great center of learning, producing world-renowned scholars in medicine, law and sorcery. Its neighbors are the nations of Adera, Umberwald and Parscia, as well as Bisra, its long-standing enemy. Ile-Rien shares a coastline along the Western Ocean with Parscia.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- The Fall of Ile-Rien(3 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Ile-Rien at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s2
- 2000s7
- 2010s3
Shape
5 novels · 1 novelette · 5 short stories · 1 collection
1 author
reads like:fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 12 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Death of the Necromancerdarkest
- The Element of Firebrightest
- Between Worlds: The Collected Ile-Rien and Cineth Storiescalmest
- The Gate of Godsmost intense